I currently have 2 hard drives inside my pc.1 has the os and the other has mainly music and programs files.I want to change my hardrive with the operating sytem on it,because i have a bigger hard dirve now,but will i lose all my music files from the other hardrive if i do this?
2007-11-15 02:49:04 · 5 answers · asked by Ryan G 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Hi. No, the files on the secondary drive should be fine.
2007-11-15 02:54:06 · answer #1 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Providing that you clone your old hard drive to the new bigger one then you should have all the correct links in place. The files on the 2nd drive cannot diappear unless you deliberately delete them, but if you just install the OS onto the new hard drive then you may find certain links do not work.
2007-11-15 03:14:28 · answer #2 · answered by ray_diator 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you shouldn't. It really would depend on how you install it. I'm guessing you just have two partitions. As long as you leave the partitions the same you should be just fine.
(any programs that were installed on that hard drive won't work. But files, like pictures and music well work fine).
2007-11-15 02:53:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you wont. If your music and files is stored on the extra hard drive, then they are stored. The only way they would be removed is if someone went in there and removed them or reformatted the drive.
Your completely safe with this.
2007-11-15 02:53:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NOP it should not unless your powersupply cant handle the extra load
2007-11-15 03:20:49 · answer #5 · answered by Andrew d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋