[SengalBoy]

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Originally Posted by TheRaizin

Pretty much. Back up your important files first.

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Originally Posted by KaiserBlue

yup, i second what raizen said. Since your hdd contains pretty much everything for your computer including os, programs, files, etc. By replacing an hdd or ssd, youll first need to backup those important files that you want to migrate over to the new hardrive, and then swap hardrives, reinstall os, drivers, programs, etc. Then just move those backed up filed to the new hardrive. And your done. Its a bit tedious if your like upgrading whole specs on a computer with the long installs for the new dtivers and just get everything to work, its straightforward, just time consuming for everything to finish setting up.

And yeah, you cant just move programs from your old hardrive to your new one, everything installed on the original harddrive is hard-written onto that harddrive, like an engraving, to work work with that specific harddrive and set up, so since these programs are hard written to that hardrive, its not possible with the way Windows works to just drag and drop the entire contents to a new harddrive. I believe macs can do that and boot off an external drive, along with drag and drop, but not windows sadly

Thanks. My PC can still runs fine, it just had a slow startup atm. Tbh I'd rather buy a new PC anyway since the ither parts are ageing as well, but in the event if I don't have enough cash might need to invest in a new hard drive, at the very least for backup.