Am i able to keep my hard drive if i put new parts in my computer?

Question

My hard drive has 37.2 gig on it.

Answer 1

of course! as long as you didn't rob the SATA or IDE cable belong to Mr HDD. please ensure sufficient food (power supply) for him and his new roomates....

Answer 2

Yes. You have 2 choices
You can use it as the primary hardrive, and when you get your new system, format the drive and do a clean install. (Back your important stuff up and burn it to disk or a jumpdrive)

You can purchase a new hardrive, and make it the master, put it at the end of the ide cable and put the second hardrive as slave (change the jumper settings) Then I would copy the important files to the new c drive install, (install the operating system here)...then copy them back to d after you reformat the second drive.
This option is cool, as your saved files are separate from your windows and program install. If you get a virus, you can leave your second hardrive installed, and reinstall window without data loss. (Assuming you always save to the second drive) Then check you D drive for virus's after a rebuild.
Good Luck
Good Luck

Answer 3

Yes. But you may want something a bit larger if your juicing up the rest of the box!

Answer 4

yes

Answer 5

yea just dont change the hard drive

Answer 6

yes and if you need help assembling them, i have a site that will teach you step by step
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/computer-build-1-video.htm

Answer 7

of course you can just connect whatever you need and you'll be fine. if you want to REPLACE your hard drive i suppose you couldn't unless you have another port (sorry idk terms but i've seen a video on comps.) to place your hard drive in.

Answer 8

Yes, you can do that.

Answer 9

yes.