Windows 10: I have an hard drive from my desktop pc, when I try to hook it up to my laptop, the hard...

My desktop pc crashed, I took the hard drive out to try to save my media. It shows no media and doesn't show up as a drive.

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hard drive hook up

hello, building a new pc (first time). i now have three (3) hard drives in the case. two (2) old drives (about five (5) years old) and a new one, all western digital. how would the forum members suggest that i hook up all three drives? will they be acting as separate drives or something else? thanks for the forum's feedback and overlooking my cluelessness.

 

Laptop hard drive upgrade

To replace a hard drive on a laptop is a little more troublesome than a desktop. 1st as most people here suggest you will need some sort of a backup disk just in case. Also be sure when buying the new Hard Disk is compatible with your model. And i would strongly suggest you install a new system and start from scratch because there are far too many problems that can occur when transferring system files.

 

Laptop hard drive upgrade

Yeah but it is a bit of a bummer when i have paid for a genuine copy of windows mce.
but i do have a copy of vista that i could put in the laptop but i am not too sure it will be good as it is slower on my desktop which i dual boot wwith xp. the spec is

3000+ SEMPRON CPU
1GB DDR RAM
40 GB RAM