Hard drive help

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MattAK003

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Hey, I'm building a new pc and im putting in a new hard drive and installing vista on it, i have an old hard drive with all my stuff on it that has xp installed would it be ok to put it in as a slave drive even with the os? thanks
 
Are you going to use your old hard drive as a secondary storage drive or are you trying to run a dual-OS setup?
 
you can easily just put vista on ur old HDD and keep the information on it by only installing a new windows
 
hmmm well here's the whole situation. the os i have on my old hard drive was an oem so i can't put it into my new pc, and i didn't have an os to put into my new pc so i got vista through other methods and am unsure if it will work or not
 
You could reuse your old hard drive as a storage drive. But I don't know whether or not Vista, upon its complete installation, would recognize it as a separate bootable "partition."

The easiest way to solve your "problem" would be to transfer the important files that you want to keep onto your newer HDD and to reformat the old one.
 
You could use the old drive as storage, that'll be fine. If you'd like to reclaim the space that the OS is taking up, either delete the related directories/files, or do what tiraides suggested. However, if you just need quick access to your files, it would certainly work as a storage drive... just make sure to set the boot priority in the BIOS.
 
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