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    Moving my HDD to a new computer

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by Gorbal, Jul 3, 2011.

  1. Gorbal

    Gorbal Newbie

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    Well, the GPUs on my 9750 finally crapped out (boot to a black screen now), so I'm going to buy a new M17. Can I pull out the hard drive from my 9750 and use it as a secondary drive on the new M17? The old computer was WinXp and the new one will be Win7. I really just want to be able to pull all my old data off the HDD, I don't need to dual boot into XP or anything.
     
    Gorbal, Jul 3, 2011
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  2. granyte

    granyte ATI+AMD -> DAAMIT

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    yes you can as long as you don,t plan on booting on it
     
    granyte, Jul 4, 2011
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