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Can you reformat a hard drive and put it in your old computer?
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∙ 11y ago
It is certainly is possible to do so. As long as you can configure the appropriate jumpers and cables, you can make the connection.
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How do you get an old laptop to work?
You can try to reformat the hard drive
How do you reformat a hard drive when it wont boot and disc drive dont work?
It sounds like the drive itself is fried. You may need to install a brand new drive and toss out the old one.
Can you format your hard drive and install all your old programs and files from your old computer to your new hard drive?
Of course, copy all your programs and files you need from the old hard drive and put it on your new hard drive BEFORE formatting the old hard drive. Formatting your hard drive will mean losing everything and a slim chance of getting it all back.
My Desktop crashed and now I can't turn it on. How can I transfer the Data to my laptop?
Remove your HDD from your broken PC. Then put it into a good and working desktop PC with the same HDD connections. Boot the computer to that drive and copy your files to either an external hard drive, a portable hard drive, or a flash drive (if you have one big enough.) After the transfer is done, copy the files to wherever you may want them. It's also possible to leave your old hard drive in the computer you are using to transfer these files, or reformat your HDD so you can have extra storage in that PC:)
If you remove a drive running windows Xp from your old computer how can you add it to your new computer running windows vista?
If 'vista' recognizes the existence of the drive, you might have to reformat the former 'xp' drive. Don't think it would be wise to have two complete OS's working on the same PC.
When i plug in my hardrive an icon doesn't show in my computer Why?
There are only three reasons that I know of. The first is: the hard-drive has to much memory for the computer to handle. The second is: The hard-drive and/or your computer in infected with a virus. The third is: The hard-drive is fairly new, while the computer is fairly old. I hope these helped!
How do you replace the hard disc on computer with an old hard disk from another computer k?
To replace the hard disc on one computer with the hard disk of another you would have to make sure they have the same connectors. If they do then you may proceed to first unplug the computer, remove the cover to access the hard drive (you may have to look at documentation to show you how to remove the hard drive from the case, replace with the old hard drive. Depending on where this old drive came out of, when it boots if the operating system is still intact it will have to update several items throughout the boot process in order to recognize the new hardware.
What do you do when hard drive c is full but theres hardly anything in it?
1. delete them really BIG files 2. delete your old partion/s and reclaim space 3. reformat your drive 4. buy an external HHD
Can you use an old PATA hard drive in your new computer as a separate hard drive for Linux?
Yes. If your computer does not support PATA directly, you will need to purchase a PATA to SATA adapter board.
How do you change external hard drive memory formats for windows Xp?
In our old computer I put a SEAGATE 500 gig External Hard Drive. The computer was windows XP Is it a working chance to use the external hard drive From The system i first installed it.
Instructions on personal computer data transfer before sale?
walmart sales a data transfer cable and the software comes with it to transfer all you personal document pics ect. after you get what you want off, reformat the hard drive of the old CPU to erase any other unused data.
Should I replace the external hard drive on my three year old computer?
It's probably not the hard drive which is causing your old computer to slow down, so buying an external drive won't help. You might get more life from it by getting rid of programs which are clogging it up, but if truth be told, a three year old computer is an antique!
