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wormholes101
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 Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 5:07 am Post subject: Installing a used hard drive (internally) |
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I have a 1TB hard drive that is currently sitting inside a DIVX player. I want to pull it out and install it internally inside my computer. Will I lose the hundreds of movies I have saved on the drive?
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 5:14 am Post subject: Re: Installing a used hard drive (internally) |
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| wormholes101 wrote: |
I have a 1TB hard drive that is currently sitting inside a DIVX player. I want to pull it out and install it internally inside my computer. Will I lose the hundreds of movies I have saved on the drive?
Thanks in advance. |
Assuming it is a 3.5" HDD you will lose nothing when you move it over. simply undo the screws, remove it, put it into the desktop case and attach the cables.
If it was a 2.5" hdd then you may not be able to put it in a desktop case.
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wormholes101
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 5:24 am Post subject: Re: Installing a used hard drive (internally) |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
Assuming it is a 3.5" HDD you will lose nothing when you move it over. simply undo the screws, remove it, put it into the desktop case and attach the cables. |
It is a 3.5" HDD.
You see, last week I bought a new 3.5" HDD and installed that. Once it was plugged in, it was recognized in the device manager but I couldn't find or access it with "My computer>"F" drive.
I had to format it to access the drive - even though the guy at the shop where I bought it had already formatted the drive.
So, I dunno. I worry about losing all the movies on this old drive. Any insight? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:41 am Post subject: Re: Installing a used hard drive (internally) |
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| wormholes101 wrote: |
| ttompatz wrote: |
Assuming it is a 3.5" HDD you will lose nothing when you move it over. simply undo the screws, remove it, put it into the desktop case and attach the cables. |
It is a 3.5" HDD.
You see, last week I bought a new 3.5" HDD and installed that. Once it was plugged in, it was recognized in the device manager but I couldn't find or access it with "My computer>"F" drive.
I had to format it to access the drive - even though the guy at the shop where I bought it had already formatted the drive.
So, I dunno. I worry about losing all the movies on this old drive. Any insight? |
If it has movies on it then it has already been formatted. How do you put movies on it - via USB? it will be fine.
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namerae
Joined: 10 Jun 2010
Location: Anyang, RoK
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| Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, if it already has data on it, you shouldn't have to format it to access it as a secondary drive once it's been plugged in inside the OS.
Should be no different than the way you access it as an external drive :] |
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denverdeath
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Location: Boo-sahn
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wormholes101
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:31 am Post subject: |
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Thanks guys. I switched it over this morning and has no problems at all.
Thanks for all your input. |
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