Topic: Changing HHD's

[Coknuck]

I'm going to change my HHD to a larger one. I'm going to use XP Pro Corporate x64. I will be a clean install on the new drive. What if I want to put old one back in would that be a problem or not. The one I taking out has Vista & W7 on it.

[mudmanc4]

 I don't think I understand, maybe it's late.

 Oh S#!t, I see, your talking about two of the same disk, right ?

[Coknuck]

The Hard Drive in my laptop is 120gig and has Vista and W7 on it and I taking it out and putting a 320gig HD in. I'm going to put XP Pro on the new HD. If some thing should go wrong with the new HD can I put the old one back in with no problems?

[mudmanc4]

The Hard Drive in my laptop is 120gig and has Vista and W7 on it and I taking it out and putting a 320gig HD in. I'm going to put XP Pro on the new HD. If some thing should go wrong with the new HD can I put the old one back in with no problems?

 There two different OS's, so there should be no problems. The HDD if shut down properly before you remove it , it'll not know where it's at, and the hardware could care less either. Or you could leave it in there, and dual boot that way.

[Coknuck]

I'm going to put the one I'm taking out into a external USB enclosure. Can I change boot order and boot to it or do I need to clean it and use it for storage?

[mudmanc4]

I'm going to put the one I'm taking out into a external USB enclosure. Can I change boot order and boot to it or do I need to clean it and use it for storage?

 Depending on the enclosure will depend on what you can do , but it'll show up on post by pressing F2, F8 or F12  and you should be able to boot from it. Been too long since I used windows regular. 

[Coknuck]

Thank you for the in put!