Windows 10: transfer hard drive

My old computer was a windows 8 that was upgraded to windows 10. I just ordered a new i5 6600 which comes with windows 10, a 250G SSD and 1 TB hard drive.. My old hard drive appears to be a Seagate Barracuda 1TB SATA which seems to be the same as the one in my new Vanquish. My old hard drive is 2/3 full and is backed up often. My question is can I move this old hard drive to my new computer as a separate drive without formatting it and use the data on it (or transfer my data) or does it need to be formatted (thus giving me roughly 2 TB of space with the 1 TB provided with the computer). It was my C: drive in the old computer.

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I want to install a hard drive from a dead desktop with Windows 7 into a new desktop with Windows 10. May I install it like a new hard drive and use windows 10 disc management system to configure it?

 

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Since you only want to use it as a backup storage, all you need to do is to connect it to your device. You won't need to configure it as long as the drive is still in good condition. If you experience some problems with the drive, it's possible that the
drive has already failed. If that's the case, you would need to buy a new one.

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You can install it as the third hard drive in the new computer. Then I would use MiniTool Partition Wizard Free to delete all the extra system reserved and recovery partitions on it and expand the partition containing your data into the free space.

 

Since it has an active OS on it, just deactivate it so that you do not get boot problems.

How to deactivate an active partition?


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After I do all this will my data/programs be usable?

 

Regarding the 3d drive - the data will be OK but the programs you don't want to use anyhow.

 

The only programs that will be usable are those that are "standalone" or "portable". Most are not. Your data will be intact, but you will have to provide administrator privileges to get into the users folders on the old hard drive.

 

Thanks for all the quick replies!

 

Use Acronis True Image. I used it to copy files from a broken hard drive to an ssd on my old win7 laptop. It works a dream and is super fast as well. The best out of all of them.

 

It is nice to be enthusiastic, but what you are saying is not true - e.g. the speed. Macrium is a faster than Acronis. Not that it matters but we should stay with the facts. And I think few people that know both programs would agree with your view.