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if that hard drive is replacing your old hard drive so that it is the only one in there, then yes you will have to reinstall the os. However, if you are planning on adding it in addition to your old one, then you wont have to reinstall it.

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Q: If you get a 1 Terabyte hard drive for gaming do you have to reinstall your os?
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A TB external hard drive means that the storage capacity of the particular hard drive is equal to 1 TB or terabyte. A terabyte is equal to 1,000 gigabytes or GB.


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When was the first terabyte hard drive released for public consumers?

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