How to Install a Used Hard Drive in your PC and Make It Work

How to Install a Used Hard Drive in your PC and Make It Work - Step By Step Install Guide

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We go over How to Install a Used Hard Drive in your PC and Make It Work. Best Ways to Reuse an Old Windows Boot Drive as Storage Drive Hard Drive, SSD or M.2 drive and how to partition your drive. How to Install a Used Hard Drive in your PC.
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0:00 How to install a used SSD or Hard Drive into your PC - It's so EASY
0:35 How to prepare your system for an additional drive
1:30 How to install a hard drive in your PC
4:30 How to install a hard drive in the HYTE Y40 PC Case
6:16 Where do I find the Boot Manager in the BIOS?
7:17 Showing the new drive in Disk Management
8:22 How to Download and install MiniTool Partition Wizard Free
9:17 How to clear an older drive to make a new drive
11:13 How to create partitions on your drive
12:10 How to use DiskPart to clear a disk
12:55 How to create a partition on your hard drive with Disk Management
This goes over How to Delete an Old Windows Installation from a Second Drive and Erase Windows from the old drive. This can be used as a Beginners Guide to Upgrade Your PC Storage. This will also show you how to partition your drive. So if you have ever wondered Will my hard drive work on a different computer, this will help you and it will also help you in How To Get Files from your Old Hard Drive, SSD or M.2 SSD.
This really will help you in How to Upgrade Your PC with a Used SSD or HDD. Also for times when Windows 10 and 11 Wont Boot, How To Copy Your Files Onto A Boot Drive From An Old Drive. Mainly, we go over how to install a hard drive, or how to install an HDD but the same would go for How to Install an SSD since they are essentially the same.
We go over the SATA Data cable and the SATA Power cable and how to connect them and adapters and how to install hard disk in pc.
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@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

WATCH NEXT: How To Install a Second SSD into Your PC: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m5ubm5iZmN7LaYE.html We go over How to Reuse an Old Windows Boot Drive as Storage Drive. Best Ways to Reuse an Old Windows Boot Drive as Storage Drive Hard Drive, SSD or M.2 drive and how to partition your drive.

@KTHKUHNKK Жыл бұрын

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@KTHKUHNKK Жыл бұрын

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@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

thanks my friend ;)

@KTHKUHNKK Жыл бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou I discovered something today on my computer. I had a few programs opened My power director for one. But the main thing was I was doing a large format not a quick format of my SD card out of my camera. It was taking a little while like I expected. So I figured I'd go ahead and do some other things while that was formatting I took a snapshot of a picture and I went to rename it. I noticed I could not type for some reason. Just for the heck of it I opened up task manager to see what was going on. It showed the power consumption running very high. So my conclusion was that When the computer is doing a large or deep format. It would not allow me to do other things such as rename a picture. Sure enough when the SD card got done formatting. Things return to normal and the power consumption drop to very low, and only then was I allowed to rename a picture and Was able to type in letters again. So what do you think doing a large or heavy format uses a lot of power ? Bud

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

heavy format always takes up a lot, its using up more of the drive

@chiria6930 Жыл бұрын

Thank you from down under. 73 year old lady trying to learn as much as possible as my IT hubby has passed away. Just about to change my Seagate hhd to a Samsung Evo 870 ssd and want to use the old one as a backup. I was excited that I was able to follow your instructions and actually understand you as you explained everything so clearly. Beautiful computer too. Cheerio. 😊

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend, it means the world to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Also, I am so very sorry for your loss my friend.

@leahzarbano5781 9 ай бұрын

This video is perfect. I only watched the first half and got my installation completed in about 20 mins! Exactly what I needed. Thank you!!!

@ThisBytesForYou 9 ай бұрын

Thanks bud, so very happy you enjoyed it, surely would have helped to watch the entire thing

@gxdyx4983 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for making this video to help me understand more on what I’m doing. I really appreciate your time. 🙏🏽

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@zemichaeldemisse 3 ай бұрын

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@ThisBytesForYou 3 ай бұрын

thank you I think, not sure what a Guga is, but it sounds cool ;)

@zemichaeldemisse 24 күн бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou Well guga is a chef check him out on youtube

@ThisBytesForYou 24 күн бұрын

@@zemichaeldemisse shhhh, dont tell my wife, she will want me to cook hahah, but thank you haha

@Jackierose669 8 күн бұрын

Thank you for explaining this concept so well! I've learned a lot from your videos!

@ThisBytesForYou 7 күн бұрын

@user-hj5mz8xq6v 5 ай бұрын

Great video! Your instruction were very clear and easy to follow. I had an older 256GB SSD I wanted to install in my main PC. Followed your instructions and in 10 minutes, I had a second drive installed.

@ThisBytesForYou 5 ай бұрын

Well awesome my friend, thank you and always a pleasure, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

@user-hj5mz8xq6v 5 ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou You are very welcome sir!

@TheSchwartzzz 3 ай бұрын

What an awesome video. Super detailed and very helpful. Again thank you for this!

@ThisBytesForYou 3 ай бұрын

@c849243 Жыл бұрын

I just installed a NVMe SSD, formatted it, gave it a new label, and hed NO problems, thanks to you, Iggy! I'm going to upgrade my memory and Graphics next. You are my COMPUTER GOD!

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Awesome bud, so very happy I could help you. For RAM, you may want to check this one out, important when buying new RAM, adding on to what you have already: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rteHmciA2LrYn2w.html And video, let me know what you are planning to get.

@Zynetta0379 9 ай бұрын

This video is amazing Literally everything I needed

@ThisBytesForYou 9 ай бұрын

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Your kind words, seriously mean a ton to me, and just at the right time, thank you.

@TheOlman35 10 ай бұрын

THANK YOU!! This video helped me. I was able to have a 1tb on the MB and a 500 ssd external for my photography... Excellent walk threw

@ThisBytesForYou 10 ай бұрын

@308damage 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for making it easy. You explained it very well

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@MeaghanMGE 10 ай бұрын

this was so helpful, thank you!!!

@ThisBytesForYou 10 ай бұрын

@290moepodcast 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, great video straight to the point.

@ThisBytesForYou 4 ай бұрын

@c849243 Жыл бұрын

Another very helpful video, Iggy. Thank you for all you do!

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you so much my friend, I greatly appreciate it and your support, it means the world to me. It kinda hit home right now, just lost my day job, so transitioning to find a new day job.

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Also, its been a while, I was wondering what happened to you, I hadn't seen you in a bit.

@c849243 Жыл бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou Brother passed away.

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

@@c849243 oh man, I am so sorry to hear that my friend, prayers for you and yours

@demonthought00 7 ай бұрын

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@ThisBytesForYou 7 ай бұрын

always a pleasure my friend, so very happy I could help you and I also thank you so much for your support, it means the world to me.

@porkfriedrice2675 11 ай бұрын

Very helpful thank you

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@lloydclevely9956 4 ай бұрын

Really clear and easy to follow vid, thanks :)

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@lloydclevely9956 4 ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou only right to say thanks if you've helped me out. Thanks again

@ThisBytesForYou 4 ай бұрын

thank you so much for your support my friend and your kind words, it means the world to me and so very happy I could help

@riskey6788 18 күн бұрын

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@ThisBytesForYou 18 күн бұрын

@scottdrums2128 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!😊

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@user-rl8lw5ql6k 2 ай бұрын

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@trippymcshroom 2 ай бұрын

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@ThisBytesForYou 2 ай бұрын

@@trippymcshroom you being here is PERFECT for me, you don't need to do more, I would love to catch you some more videos, just make sure you have the notifications enabled so you don't missed out and if you want to share the videos, that helps too, but just having you here makes me happy, thank you.

@c849243 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you so much my friend, I really do appreciate it, as I mentioned I just lost my job, and now going nuts applying for jobs and finishing up reviews to start new ones, I have more time now kind of I just need to manage it better.

@uyfbfidrs Ай бұрын

thank you sir

@ThisBytesForYou Ай бұрын

@stevenj2380 10 ай бұрын

Following were all single partition drives. I have not used more than one partition on any HDD for many years. I thought you might be able to handle what you did strictly in disk manager though. I just installed 2 new 12Tb secondary drives. First in external dock (toaster style, just pop it in) to initialize, new simple volume, quick format and start to drop and drag files over before putting them in the case. These replaced 2 existing 6 Tb secondary drives. Am filling with my photography and other files and want to buy time before needing NAS. I also used the dock to save some old files from old HDD and then wipe them before recycle/ dispose.

@ThisBytesForYou 10 ай бұрын

good stuff my friend, but for windows, it does 3 partitions on its own, for other drives, like you, single partition as well.

@alien_menace971 Жыл бұрын

Great thanks again with your advise. I accidentally put my widows 11 pro on a Samsung 860 evo instead of my Samsung 980 NVME drive. I was wondering how I was going clear that 860. I used something like this so many yrs ago. It was called "PartitionMagic", back then. But this version is much better. Thanks again.

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

@freedomearthmoon1 Жыл бұрын

My 3 month old HP VIctus is a small form factor case with a i7-12700 and a 3060 12GB Vram GPU. With the side cover removed the primary CPU cores thermal throttle within 60 seconds of rendering a video. I was playing a game and monitoring temps, the CPU ran at about 25% capacity the GPU at 60 to 70%. They didn't exceed normal operation temps but got pretty toasty. I've purchased a full sized case, ATX motherboard, PSU, etc. Question? If I mount my current 4th gen NVMe C-drive with Windows 11 pro and all my programs on the new Gigabyte Z690 AORUS Elite AX . Do you think thats wise or do you recommend saving my files, wiping the drive and installing windows new?? I've done some computer mods over the years but this is my first computer build from scratch. Thanks for any thought you might want to share. I appreciate the clear way you explain things, a friend of mine sent me a link to this video. I'm a new subscriber.

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Hmm, did you upgrade the board you had,or was the Gigabyte Z690 AORUS Elite AX the board you had in that system (I dont think it was, size and all, but just asking) Let your friend know, thank you so much and thank you so much as well my new friend, it means the world to me. The 12700 is a hot processor, what are you thinking to cool it?

@TheOlman35 10 ай бұрын

Hi, Can you Help with direction on a case that will fit an asus maximus ix rog atx Mb? Can i fit it in a mini case> or do i have to stick with a mid or full size case? Im also running an asus 1080 Ti GPU..Thank you

@ThisBytesForYou 10 ай бұрын

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@zotirruges 3 ай бұрын

i like this guy, very good instructions for big dumb guys like me who break things too easily.

@ThisBytesForYou 3 ай бұрын

haha, well thank you again my friend, I am so very happy I could help you, don't worry, I'm a big dummy too ;)

@Mra83H 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your effort bro. If I need my old hard disk to be the main one isn't enough to make it the 1st boot drive in BIOS?

@ThisBytesForYou 4 ай бұрын

Ummm, maybe? If your old hard drive was used on the same motherboard you are using now, chances are yes, but if its a different motherboard, CPU (AMD to Intel or Intel to AMD, "Hardware abstraction layer") then that's a big problem and may not work. Also, if you had many hard drives along with that hard drive used in the same machine bfore, there is a chance the boot partition is written to all the hard drives causing issues.

@oderusurdugus 6 ай бұрын

Hats off to you, sir! You helped me a lot, thank you!

@ThisBytesForYou 6 ай бұрын

@unofficialbrothers2795 3 ай бұрын

Thanks sir ❤️🇧🇩

@ThisBytesForYou 3 ай бұрын

@shahariarnafees 10 ай бұрын

This video is underrated

@ThisBytesForYou 10 ай бұрын

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Also, please do feel free to share this video to anyone you think could benefit from it, it would help me greatly and them as well. Thanks again my friend.

@ViaCristero Ай бұрын

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@ViaCristero Ай бұрын

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@uzzzzal 7 ай бұрын

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@ThisBytesForYou 7 ай бұрын

Thanks a million! I'm stoked that you enjoyed the video. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see!

@user-qs8vq8up4f 8 ай бұрын

Yo!!! Thanks!!! I have no experience with hardware and i bought new pc, i had old one that didnt work bcs mainhard disk first died later motherboard died, new one had only 256ssd so i used old one(dead harddrive) that has 500gb it works well!! It turned out some system32 files were corrupted so it couldnt work as it was my main hard disk, its now my local disk D i just have to take 2 cables to install 2 old hard disks of 80gb now i can finally play war thunder!!!!

@ThisBytesForYou 8 ай бұрын

@brianpresto1446 17 күн бұрын

So what I’m wanting to know is if I get a new pc and want to move my old hard drive over to the new pc and have all my programs from my old pc on the new pc. I would just want to remove the operating system that’s on the old drive?

@ThisBytesForYou 17 күн бұрын

No, you can't do effectively. You Windows drive, your C drive has everything installed on it, when you install your old drive in your new PC, your new PC's installed version of Windows has no idea what that other drive is about, it's registry, a brain of windows that has a map and a bank of all the programs and files location (explained horribly, but I hope you understand) has its collection of programs, and the other drive has its own collection, they don't talk. The C drive of your old PC and your new PC may fight, you need to tell the BIOS which is your preferred drive when you install that old drive, I show you how to do it in this video. Your old drive, with the older installation of windows as it is will not function on this new machine, since Windows knows the older hardware (HAL), it will be different on this new computer and it will freak out. There is a chance it will work, but it will be crippled, even though, the hardware will be better, there will be incompatibilities, like planting your brain in another body, your brain has no idea what this new stuff is, it may work, but never like the original, even things that are better in this model, may not operate correctly with your brain and visa versa. Once you get your new PC, pop in this older drive, tell windows which is the correct drive to boot from, then start copying files from the old drive, to the new drive, pictures, music, documents, videos, etc. Then you will need to reinstall your old applications, in order to read some of the stuff your old computer could that your new computer cant, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve and all your games and such. Long, but I hope it makes sense.

@FinalStand7 12 күн бұрын

Do i have to format my harddrive to use it? Cant i just drag the old files to my new windows installed ssd? I have so many pictures and files on them

@ThisBytesForYou 12 күн бұрын

@@FinalStand7 did you watch the video, I go over that.

@UploadsbySK 3 ай бұрын

Noob question here: If I'm moving a storage drive with no OS on it to a new PC is it as simple as just unplugging the drive and plugging it into the new motherboard? I'm planning on building a new PC this year and I'm going to do a fresh install on a brand new SSD for the boot drive and I want to save a bit of money by just using my old storage drive.

@ThisBytesForYou 3 ай бұрын

not a noob question at all my friend, but not as simple as a yes or no, the video you are commenting on has the answer, have you watched it? But maybe this one will help you more: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m5ubm5iZmN7LaYE.html

@KTHKUHNKK Жыл бұрын

Hello Genius Wizard. Is Recuva Still Free to use ? My camera SD card got corrupted today and lost some files. Unless you can recommend a different freeware. Mad Kuhn

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

yup

@KTHKUHNKK Жыл бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou Howdy I tried everything within the camera to recover my files such as. Repairing database. No Luck. So I got Recuva Downloaded again and ran my SD card through it. As you well know it asks you some questions first. So I answered a few questions in the last one said he must format the card. I thought what the heck. If I do that I'll never recover the files. But I did the format. Recuva took 15 or 20 minutes to scan my card. It came back and said no files found. What the Heck ?

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

file recovery is very iffy

@GilBarOn 5 ай бұрын

Can I use the old drive without deleting the old material? I want everything I have there..

@ThisBytesForYou 5 ай бұрын

yup, just whats installed on the old drive wont work on the new drive, you need to reinstall it from the OS of the new drive.

@eclecticlife Жыл бұрын

I bought a laptop that has a regular hard drive. Can I swap an SSD drive from my old laptop without having to install everything from scratch? Thanks again for all your videos!!

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

You sure can, this video will help you kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aqikl7CU1t3Fdps.html and thanks so much for your kind words my friend.

@DS-cy6mf Жыл бұрын

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@kuduzvich9847 Ай бұрын

hello,i did everything and my hdd wont work,i dont think its about hdd but its about pc,it just wont boot when i install hdd,when i disconnect sata it just starts but when its connected it wont start

@ThisBytesForYou Ай бұрын

Did you go into the bios and change the boot order like I showed you here?

@bridge5308 Ай бұрын

I’ve never built a PC before, but it seems easy asf ngl

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@Joeker8171 Жыл бұрын

I have a question. I have a SATA 240 SSD with windows on it, and it's full. I also have a 1 tb SATA. if I unplug the 240 SSD and install an NVME and install a reinstall of Windows 10, will that work?

@PhaverX Жыл бұрын

I believe so

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

yes, that will work fine.

@Joeker8171 Жыл бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou thank you, I appreciate and enjoy your videos

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend, it means the world to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

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@HappyBackgammon-gn3yo 3 ай бұрын

A few weeks ago my laptop randomly broke, can I install my ssd into a new pc without my files being corrupted or removed?

@ThisBytesForYou 3 ай бұрын

you can, but I dont recommend it, UNLESS its the same PC. An example, your 86 honda dies, you buy a 2021 Honda and pop in the engine from your 86 honda,... it will work fine right? An older laptop has an older chipset, older processor, RAM, BIOS, northbrigde, south bridge, graphics card, sound card, etc... and those things make a HUGE difference. On a clean install, you will get the best performance. Take the hard drive out of your old laptop and use it on an external drive enclosure. YOu will need to reinstall stuff you had on the old drive, but you will still have access to the old files, pictures, videos, music, etc. Hope that makes sense?

@HappyBackgammon-gn3yo 3 ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou Yeah, that makes sense. Ty

@ThisBytesForYou 3 ай бұрын

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@AktiveHere 4 ай бұрын

hey, don’t know if you are still viewing comments for this video but i was wondering if i did this, would i have to redownload everything back again? like my softwares, games, etc? also would my login information also be wiped? my hard drive is a seagate barracuda 1tb. i’m also using windows 10, and was also wondering if i would have to switch over to 11 for this to work

@ThisBytesForYou 4 ай бұрын

Yes, you would need to redownload and reinstall everything. You don't need to install 11, but you should, since it's the latest operating system, it makes no sense to use 10 or anything older.

@AktiveHere 4 ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou is there a way i can switch hard drives without losing anything? also another question, is there. way to transfer my data to another, stronger and better hard drive? like if the hard drive i want to transfer it to is, let’s say 5tb and i want to put my data on there, is it possible to transfer data

@ThisBytesForYou 4 ай бұрын

yup, you can clone it, but I dont recommend it, you are copying all the problems you had before and making them worse, I recommend reinstalling everything, but if you still want to do it, here you go: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aqikl7CU1t3Fdps.html

@AktiveHere 4 ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou alright, thank you for your help

@ThisBytesForYou 4 ай бұрын

anytime my friend, if you are going to reinstall, I have guides to help you with that as well, and you get so much better performance@@AktiveHere

@TheOlman35 8 ай бұрын

HI, Back at it again😊 I have now added a second M.2 to store my programs on so my main C drive is free, Well now it say i dont have permissions to write to this drive. Have you done a video on this or is this something simple that i am missing?

@ThisBytesForYou 8 ай бұрын

Are you the administrator of your PC?

@TheOlman35 8 ай бұрын

Im the only one that uses it, so the answer to that is idk if i am, how would i check to see if i am? @@ThisBytesForYou

@TheOlman35 8 ай бұрын

Yes i found it and it says that i am.

@ThisBytesForYou 8 ай бұрын

@@TheOlman35 is Thai windows home or pro, did you install the OS?

@TheOlman35 8 ай бұрын

system is win 10 Home@@ThisBytesForYou

@abruptartist 2 ай бұрын

What if my pc has a boot priority system?

@ThisBytesForYou 2 ай бұрын

Have you watched the video?

@Plagued_Visions Ай бұрын

I just bought new parts for my pc... i am gonna use my old hdd and ssd from my past pc in my new pc along with an additional nvme on a new mobo. If i follow this video do i have to delete the drive completely or just go into bios and make my old ssd the boot drive? Cause the old ssd is the one that has my windows key on it! I am staying with intel just changing mobo, cpu, ram, and psu

@ThisBytesForYou Ай бұрын

You are changing a lot, that will trigger reactivation and your system will run slower, you dont have your key anywhere? A reinstall of windows will give you such a performance increase and especially with your new hardware.

@Plagued_Visions Ай бұрын

@ThisBytesForYou i do not have my key anywhere just on my current ssd boot drive in my current pc... so how do i go about swapping them over? Do i just swap them and then delete everything off them or just delete everything off of them before i swap them and on first boot reinstall windows?

@ThisBytesForYou Ай бұрын

@@Plagued_Visions is it a prebuilt system or do you have tied to your email?

@Plagued_Visions Ай бұрын

@ThisBytesForYou it was a prebuilt in the beginning but i swapped the cooler, case, gpu, and fans, now just upgrading the left over components

@ThisBytesForYou Ай бұрын

@@Plagued_Visions ok, chances are that will not stay activated, it's tied to OEM activation in the bios, tied to the motherboard. I was a product development engineer at Alienware, then later Dell and Velocity Micro and I managed OEM SLP activation. Chances are you will need to buy a key.

@KTHKUHNKK Жыл бұрын

Never mind on that last question I got recover downloaded again it's doing a scan so we'll see what happens. Bud

@dutenn 20 күн бұрын

But I want to just remove the windows partition? Keep my files

@ThisBytesForYou 20 күн бұрын

@dutenn the windows partition has your files on it, it has all your files on it. Move your files

@dutenn 20 күн бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou aaaaaahhhh shucks lol. Thanks for the reality check. Was just trying to avoid that

@ThisBytesForYou 20 күн бұрын

@dutenn well you can remove the windows partition, and create one but you will need to move the data again, you can keep it there just not use it to boot from, you can boot to another drive but you will water space, always trying to help my friend

@dutenn 20 күн бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou well I bought a new Lenovo legion tower, I am going to use current sab rocket 1tb via USB c / m.2 hub enclosure. Didn't know if it was going to try to boot from the hub (win 11) is on that.

@ThisBytesForYou 19 күн бұрын

well, if its an external hub it won't work, going through USB C, you have to make a lot of modifications to the installer, and its dirty. Check out this video, it might help: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aqikl7CU1t3Fdps.html

@halalmonki 5 ай бұрын

@ThisBytesForYou 5 ай бұрын

W indeed

@KTHKUHNKK Жыл бұрын

How is Iggy doing this evening ?

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

not good brother, I still dont have a job but tweaking and tuning the resume

@DeathStriker88 Жыл бұрын

*le me who is still having his Kingston A400 480GB SSD and WD Caviar Blue 512GB HDD from his old laptops:

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

I still use them from time to time

@DeathStriker88 Жыл бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou i will use them after building my pc

@DeathStriker88 Жыл бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou but i got a problem here. My HDD showed up everywhere but my SSD can't be detected. What can be the problem? I tried minitool partition, diskpart, windows partition manager, multiple pc and laptop, but only my HDD can be detected. Nothing can detect my SSD

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

So that I can help, please list the manufacturer and exact model number of the following components: 1. Motherboard - manufacturer and exact model number 2. CPU - manufacturer and exact model number 3. RAM - manufacturer and exact model number 4. Video Card - manufacturer and exact model number 5. Power supply - manufacturer and exact model number 6. Monitor - manufacturer and exact model number 7. M.2 - Manufacturer and exact model number, if you have any, and how many you have in this system 8. Regular SSD - Manufacturer and exact model number, if you have any, and how many you have in this system 9. Hard Drive - Manufacturer and exact model number, if you have any, and how many you have in this system

@DeathStriker88 Жыл бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou It is Kingston A400 SATA SSD that is not getting detected. I tried it in multiple laptops and PC but nothing happened

@c849243 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend.

@jeremyfilbert7232 13 күн бұрын

mine showing blue screen after installing old hard drive, after i open the bios boot section, the old harddrive that i just installed doesn''t show up. any idea ? do the old hard drive have to be empty ? mine filled with my old data

@ThisBytesForYou 13 күн бұрын

Did you watch this video ?

@jeremyfilbert7232 13 күн бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou yea i did, on my bios boot section the new old hard drive does not show up so i can’t change the boot option like you did in your video

@ThisBytesForYou 13 күн бұрын

@@jeremyfilbert7232 when do you see the bluescreen?

@jeremyfilbert7232 13 күн бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou right after i turn on my pc after i add my old hard drive, the screen keep looping blue screen it says “your device ran into problem and need to restart”

@ThisBytesForYou 13 күн бұрын

@jeremyfilbert7232 right, it has become the main boot drive, so if you disconnect it, it works. See what the boot order shows when it's diaconnected and it works, then when you put the new drive, change that to what it was when it worked