How to Install a Used Hard Drive in your PC and Make It Work

How to Install a Used Hard Drive in your PC and Make It Work - Step By Step Install Guide

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WATCH NEXT: How To Install a Second SSD into Your PC: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2bOmWieaN2ab68 We go over How to Reuse an Old Windows Boot Drive as Storage Drive. Best Ways to Reuse an Old Windows Boot Drive as Storage Drive Hard Drive, SSD or M.2 drive and how to partition your drive.

@KTHKUHNKK Жыл бұрын

U. R. The. Best. I. mean it

@KTHKUHNKK Жыл бұрын

Plus I love that music in the background

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

thanks my friend ;)

@KTHKUHNKK Жыл бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou I discovered something today on my computer. I had a few programs opened My power director for one. But the main thing was I was doing a large format not a quick format of my SD card out of my camera. It was taking a little while like I expected. So I figured I'd go ahead and do some other things while that was formatting I took a snapshot of a picture and I went to rename it. I noticed I could not type for some reason. Just for the heck of it I opened up task manager to see what was going on. It showed the power consumption running very high. So my conclusion was that When the computer is doing a large or deep format. It would not allow me to do other things such as rename a picture. Sure enough when the SD card got done formatting. Things return to normal and the power consumption drop to very low, and only then was I allowed to rename a picture and Was able to type in letters again. So what do you think doing a large or heavy format uses a lot of power ? Bud

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

heavy format always takes up a lot, its using up more of the drive

@chiria6930 Жыл бұрын

Thank you from down under. 73 year old lady trying to learn as much as possible as my IT hubby has passed away. Just about to change my Seagate hhd to a Samsung Evo 870 ssd and want to use the old one as a backup. I was excited that I was able to follow your instructions and actually understand you as you explained everything so clearly. Beautiful computer too. Cheerio. 😊

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend, it means the world to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Also, I am so very sorry for your loss my friend.

@easymacR32 3 ай бұрын

You Madam, are a legend 👏👏👏

@c849243 Жыл бұрын

I just installed a NVMe SSD, formatted it, gave it a new label, and hed NO problems, thanks to you, Iggy! I'm going to upgrade my memory and Graphics next. You are my COMPUTER GOD!

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Awesome bud, so very happy I could help you. For RAM, you may want to check this one out, important when buying new RAM, adding on to what you have already: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqK6l5iFqLmnpZo And video, let me know what you are planning to get.

@c849243 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you so much my friend, I really do appreciate it, as I mentioned I just lost my job, and now going nuts applying for jobs and finishing up reviews to start new ones, I have more time now kind of I just need to manage it better.

@leahzarbano5781 Жыл бұрын

This video is perfect. I only watched the first half and got my installation completed in about 20 mins! Exactly what I needed. Thank you!!!

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Thanks bud, so very happy you enjoyed it, surely would have helped to watch the entire thing

@c849243 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend.

@MikeScott-x4p 10 ай бұрын

Great video! Your instruction were very clear and easy to follow. I had an older 256GB SSD I wanted to install in my main PC. Followed your instructions and in 10 minutes, I had a second drive installed.

@ThisBytesForYou 10 ай бұрын

Well awesome my friend, thank you and always a pleasure, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

@MikeScott-x4p 10 ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou You are very welcome sir!

@goooys4173 Ай бұрын

how about i want to copy the my old files to a new pc

@ThisBytesForYou 29 күн бұрын

Yup this would work too , just don't erase the drive

@ArturGordonPim 2 күн бұрын

Your "old" computer looks like my NEW computer lol. Thanks for the video, now I understand what to do! :)

@ThisBytesForYou Күн бұрын

@axne12 3 ай бұрын

Thanks bro! I was able to install my HDD to my Y40 PC! I was lost trying to figure out how to get it mounted and working. 😃

@ThisBytesForYou 3 ай бұрын

@Michael.Chapman 17 күн бұрын

I want to boot my 2022 gaming laptop via a USB to IDE HDD adapter (or a modern USB FDD using 1.44MB MS-DOS system diskettes, formatted about 30-years ago). I'd prefer, for ultimate nostalgia, to boot my 1990 first-gen IDE drives (eg: a superb moving magnet MiniScribe 8051A, a 7080A and Conner CP-3044/ 3184, likely FAT-12? formatted, perhaps under MS-DOS or Windows 2.0, or 3.1?). I think you prefer later EIDE drives? Perhaps my only option is a bench setup using 80386 motherboards, paddle cards, etc? I also have a mighty ST-506 MFM MiniScribe 3053 (40MB my first ever drive) and an RLL Microscience HH-1060--both 5.25"--one a rotary voice coil actuator the other linear--but booting those grand dames from ca. 1988 will definitely need the old 386 (or 80286) mainboards, ST-506 and WD RLL controllers on a bench. All are great thoughts though :-)

@ThisBytesForYou 17 күн бұрын

That would be difficult, since its all on the chipset, but it can be done. My first PC, where I learned everything was an IBM XT 5150, no hard drives but it did have 2 x 5.25 drives. Years later, I skipped 386 altogether, I had a Packard Bell 486SX2 and it had a 320MB hard drive, yup it was HUGE, I do miss them, but only for nostalgia sake because of everything they can do. While I was a product development engineer at Alienware, I worked tons with IDE then through my term there SATA as well, and Velocity MIcro, but as much as I miss the nostalgia, I dont really miss the great, it was full of headache, jumpers and IRQ's were a pain, mind you once you got them, it was set it an forget it and one offs where OK, but when you are working with hundreds of different configs daily, its a pain. So happy we are passed those days, but I will say they are a GREAT foundation for learning todays hardware and to appreciate the speeds so much compared to the days we had for sure ;)

@stevenj2380 Жыл бұрын

Following were all single partition drives. I have not used more than one partition on any HDD for many years. I thought you might be able to handle what you did strictly in disk manager though. I just installed 2 new 12Tb secondary drives. First in external dock (toaster style, just pop it in) to initialize, new simple volume, quick format and start to drop and drag files over before putting them in the case. These replaced 2 existing 6 Tb secondary drives. Am filling with my photography and other files and want to buy time before needing NAS. I also used the dock to save some old files from old HDD and then wipe them before recycle/ dispose.

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

good stuff my friend, but for windows, it does 3 partitions on its own, for other drives, like you, single partition as well.

@zemichaeldemisse 8 ай бұрын

man is like guga of computers

@ThisBytesForYou 8 ай бұрын

thank you I think, not sure what a Guga is, but it sounds cool ;)

@zemichaeldemisse 5 ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou Well guga is a chef check him out on youtube

@ThisBytesForYou 5 ай бұрын

@@zemichaeldemisse shhhh, dont tell my wife, she will want me to cook hahah, but thank you haha

@ParaaShakti Ай бұрын

high quality comment

@SPEED_LIEBE 3 ай бұрын

Ive been watching ur videos for the past 2 weeks. And todax is the day for the pc build. I hope i dont mess up anything with ur help. Thanks man. 😃

@ThisBytesForYou 3 ай бұрын

@jim1066 Ай бұрын

Excellent video clear concise and easy to follow, thank you.

@ThisBytesForYou Ай бұрын

@ftuT Ай бұрын

Thank you so much. Your videos are awesome. I have one question : any cons in having many drives? I bought a 4tb 990pro and a 2tb 990evo SSD's to replace my 3tb HDD and 500gb 960EVO. But, as I needed to have both the old ones migrating data I then now have doubts about retiring them.

@ThisBytesForYou Ай бұрын

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Well, as long as you have enough power and SATA ports, you are good, M.2 slots on the other hand can potentially be issues since they require PCIE lanes, each M.2 card is 4 PCIE lanes, your graphics card takes up 16. If you pop in an M.2, it drops down to x8 to allow for more devices, but you have to see how many your CPU provides as well as your motherboard chipset. If you put too many, your computer will have issues, it may not power on, may not allow you to go into windows or may push you in the BIOS, each manufacturer handles it differently.

@ftuT Ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou wow, thank you for such a quick and concise answer. You've saved me so much research time! You're a pro.

@ThisBytesForYou Ай бұрын

I always try to help where I can my friend, and I am so happy I could help you.

@Mra83H 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for your effort bro. If I need my old hard disk to be the main one isn't enough to make it the 1st boot drive in BIOS?

@ThisBytesForYou 8 ай бұрын

Ummm, maybe? If your old hard drive was used on the same motherboard you are using now, chances are yes, but if its a different motherboard, CPU (AMD to Intel or Intel to AMD, "Hardware abstraction layer") then that's a big problem and may not work. Also, if you had many hard drives along with that hard drive used in the same machine bfore, there is a chance the boot partition is written to all the hard drives causing issues.

@ViaCristero 6 ай бұрын

12:10 is the best and easiest thank you

@ThisBytesForYou 6 ай бұрын

@ViaCristero 6 ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou yep no problem love the free information

@Jackierose669 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for explaining this concept so well! I've learned a lot from your videos!

@ThisBytesForYou 4 ай бұрын

@lloydclevely9956 9 ай бұрын

Really clear and easy to follow vid, thanks :)

@ThisBytesForYou 9 ай бұрын

@lloydclevely9956 9 ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou only right to say thanks if you've helped me out. Thanks again

@ThisBytesForYou 9 ай бұрын

thank you so much for your support my friend and your kind words, it means the world to me and so very happy I could help

@AktiveHere 8 ай бұрын

hey, don’t know if you are still viewing comments for this video but i was wondering if i did this, would i have to redownload everything back again? like my softwares, games, etc? also would my login information also be wiped? my hard drive is a seagate barracuda 1tb. i’m also using windows 10, and was also wondering if i would have to switch over to 11 for this to work

@ThisBytesForYou 8 ай бұрын

Yes, you would need to redownload and reinstall everything. You don't need to install 11, but you should, since it's the latest operating system, it makes no sense to use 10 or anything older.

@AktiveHere 8 ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou is there a way i can switch hard drives without losing anything? also another question, is there. way to transfer my data to another, stronger and better hard drive? like if the hard drive i want to transfer it to is, let’s say 5tb and i want to put my data on there, is it possible to transfer data

@ThisBytesForYou 8 ай бұрын

yup, you can clone it, but I dont recommend it, you are copying all the problems you had before and making them worse, I recommend reinstalling everything, but if you still want to do it, here you go: kzbin.info/www/bejne/anPXlYCZptyUfMk

@AktiveHere 8 ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou alright, thank you for your help

@ThisBytesForYou 8 ай бұрын

anytime my friend, if you are going to reinstall, I have guides to help you with that as well, and you get so much better performance@@AktiveHere

@Supernaturalcloak 3 ай бұрын

Easy to follow and allowed me to get the computer to boot without a blue screen!

@ThisBytesForYou 3 ай бұрын

@TheOlman35 Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU!! This video helped me. I was able to have a 1tb on the MB and a 500 ssd external for my photography... Excellent walk threw

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

@shahariarnafees Жыл бұрын

This video is underrated

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Always a pleasure my friend, so very happy you stopped by, trusted in me to help you, liked and subbed as well as took a moment out of your day to thank me. It means a ton to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Also, please do feel free to share this video to anyone you think could benefit from it, it would help me greatly and them as well. Thanks again my friend.

@Zynetta0379 Жыл бұрын

This video is amazing Literally everything I needed

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

@swimszn Ай бұрын

dude what a great video

@ThisBytesForYou Ай бұрын

@rickchop 2 ай бұрын

Yeah this is actually top quality info very easy to understand.

@ThisBytesForYou 2 ай бұрын

@demonthought00 Жыл бұрын

you are the best been tring to do this for 2 days

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

always a pleasure my friend, so very happy I could help you and I also thank you so much for your support, it means the world to me.

@308damage 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for making it easy. You explained it very well

@ThisBytesForYou 7 ай бұрын

@Joeker8171 Жыл бұрын

I have a question. I have a SATA 240 SSD with windows on it, and it's full. I also have a 1 tb SATA. if I unplug the 240 SSD and install an NVME and install a reinstall of Windows 10, will that work?

@PhaverX Жыл бұрын

I believe so

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

yes, that will work fine.

@Joeker8171 Жыл бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou thank you, I appreciate and enjoy your videos

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend, it means the world to me and I am so very happy I could help you.

@Joeker8171 Жыл бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou you're welcome, brother. You have an amazing channel

@themindseye326 Ай бұрын

May be a silly question? My laptop died so I stripped it apart, I was wondering if I’d be able throw ssd into my gaming desktop but didn’t want it to get wiped. So from what I gathered from the video I could add it to my desktop with all its info as long as I jump into the bios first and make sure I’m booting off my desktop first through proper boot order? To then I should see it in file explorer as just another drive but with all its data IE: Users, my old desktop etc I know I won’t have permissions to some files like “Users” but if I grant access I should be able to access all files I believe?

@ThisBytesForYou Ай бұрын

@@themindseye326 you are correct my friend unless that laptop was using bitlocker, if so all you really can do is erase it and repartition it as a new drive unless you know the bitlocker code.

@themindseye326 Ай бұрын

@ Yea don’t think it does because I have and external HDD/SSD adapter so I hooked it up as an external drive and I was able to access most, I gave permissions to other files like “USER” and I can now access my old laptop desktop info so I think I should be good to go

@ThisBytesForYou Ай бұрын

@@themindseye326 ahhh perfect, so you are good

@gxdyx4983 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for making this video to help me understand more on what I’m doing. I really appreciate your time. 🙏🏽

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

@oderusurdugus 11 ай бұрын

Hats off to you, sir! You helped me a lot, thank you!

@ThisBytesForYou 11 ай бұрын

@HappyBackgammon-gn3yo 7 ай бұрын

A few weeks ago my laptop randomly broke, can I install my ssd into a new pc without my files being corrupted or removed?

@ThisBytesForYou 7 ай бұрын

you can, but I dont recommend it, UNLESS its the same PC. An example, your 86 honda dies, you buy a 2021 Honda and pop in the engine from your 86 honda,... it will work fine right? An older laptop has an older chipset, older processor, RAM, BIOS, northbrigde, south bridge, graphics card, sound card, etc... and those things make a HUGE difference. On a clean install, you will get the best performance. Take the hard drive out of your old laptop and use it on an external drive enclosure. YOu will need to reinstall stuff you had on the old drive, but you will still have access to the old files, pictures, videos, music, etc. Hope that makes sense?

@HappyBackgammon-gn3yo 7 ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou Yeah, that makes sense. Ty

@ThisBytesForYou 7 ай бұрын

awesome bud, I am so happy I could help you. Maybe this can help, if you find the same laptop: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3m5dKChoptqp5o

@alien_menace971 Жыл бұрын

Great thanks again with your advise. I accidentally put my widows 11 pro on a Samsung 860 evo instead of my Samsung 980 NVME drive. I was wondering how I was going clear that 860. I used something like this so many yrs ago. It was called "PartitionMagic", back then. But this version is much better. Thanks again.

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

@290moepodcast 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, great video straight to the point.

@ThisBytesForYou 9 ай бұрын

@FrederickWaters-Hastie 7 ай бұрын

great video. very helpful. thanks!

@ThisBytesForYou 7 ай бұрын

@trippymcshroom 7 ай бұрын

sure dude, wish i could do more. good luck and keep shelling out the knowledge to the peoples

@ThisBytesForYou 7 ай бұрын

@@trippymcshroom you being here is PERFECT for me, you don't need to do more, I would love to catch you some more videos, just make sure you have the notifications enabled so you don't missed out and if you want to share the videos, that helps too, but just having you here makes me happy, thank you.

@TheSchwartzzz 8 ай бұрын

What an awesome video. Super detailed and very helpful. Again thank you for this!

@ThisBytesForYou 8 ай бұрын

@MeaghanMGE Жыл бұрын

this was so helpful, thank you!!!

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

@GioArmaniC Ай бұрын

Thank you so mucht his video helped me alot🤙🏾🎉

@ThisBytesForYou Ай бұрын

@denis_ddc Ай бұрын

i have a problem, i dont know if u can help me but i would be grateful. i have a hdd which already have data on it, in order to format it. whenever i connect it , it doesnt appear in bios, but if i try to boot, it boots on my original ssd and in a few seconds gets bugged. i dont know what to do to format it. i have bought an usb sata adaptor but that doesnt work either, its the same situation.

@ThisBytesForYou Ай бұрын

Change the boot order in the BIOS so that it boots to the drive you want it to. Let me know if that helps, if not, I have more we can work through.

@TheOlman35 Жыл бұрын

Hi, Can you Help with direction on a case that will fit an asus maximus ix rog atx Mb? Can i fit it in a mini case> or do i have to stick with a mid or full size case? Im also running an asus 1080 Ti GPU..Thank you

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

for an ATX motherboard, you will need an ATX or larger case. Smaller would be mATX or ITX. See if you like these cases HYTE Y40 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKLZiZyYa9qaoNk Montech Sky Two kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXXNq3qcg7KFZ5Y Fractal Design Focus 2 RGB kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWiVfpuubrqmmLs

@c849243 Жыл бұрын

Another very helpful video, Iggy. Thank you for all you do!

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you so much my friend, I greatly appreciate it and your support, it means the world to me. It kinda hit home right now, just lost my day job, so transitioning to find a new day job.

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Also, its been a while, I was wondering what happened to you, I hadn't seen you in a bit.

@c849243 Жыл бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou Brother passed away.

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

@@c849243 oh man, I am so sorry to hear that my friend, prayers for you and yours

@eclecticlife Жыл бұрын

I bought a laptop that has a regular hard drive. Can I swap an SSD drive from my old laptop without having to install everything from scratch? Thanks again for all your videos!!

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

You sure can, this video will help you kzbin.info/www/bejne/anPXlYCZptyUfMk and thanks so much for your kind words my friend.

@DS-cy6mf Жыл бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou Excellent! I really appreciate your videos, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

@FinalStand7 5 ай бұрын

Do i have to format my harddrive to use it? Cant i just drag the old files to my new windows installed ssd? I have so many pictures and files on them

@ThisBytesForYou 5 ай бұрын

@@FinalStand7 did you watch the video, I go over that.

@jemabutan3770 Ай бұрын

Can i still do this if my old ssd has windows 10 and my new pc has windows 11?

@ThisBytesForYou Ай бұрын

@@jemabutan3770 have you watched the video?

@riskey6788 5 ай бұрын

Thx this worked 4 me ✌🏻😃✌🏻

@ThisBytesForYou 5 ай бұрын

@zotirruges 7 ай бұрын

i like this guy, very good instructions for big dumb guys like me who break things too easily.

@ThisBytesForYou 7 ай бұрын

haha, well thank you again my friend, I am so very happy I could help you, don't worry, I'm a big dummy too ;)

@Someeguy 14 күн бұрын

Thanks bro

@ThisBytesForYou 14 күн бұрын

anytime my friend, happy you enjoyed it and it could help you.

@scottdrums2128 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!😊

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

@Dragon_Gaming2020 8 ай бұрын

Noob question here: If I'm moving a storage drive with no OS on it to a new PC is it as simple as just unplugging the drive and plugging it into the new motherboard? I'm planning on building a new PC this year and I'm going to do a fresh install on a brand new SSD for the boot drive and I want to save a bit of money by just using my old storage drive.

@ThisBytesForYou 8 ай бұрын

not a noob question at all my friend, but not as simple as a yes or no, the video you are commenting on has the answer, have you watched it? But maybe this one will help you more: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2bOmWieaN2ab68

@porkfriedrice2675 Жыл бұрын

Very helpful thank you

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

@brianpresto1446 5 ай бұрын

So what I’m wanting to know is if I get a new pc and want to move my old hard drive over to the new pc and have all my programs from my old pc on the new pc. I would just want to remove the operating system that’s on the old drive?

@ThisBytesForYou 5 ай бұрын

No, you can't do effectively. You Windows drive, your C drive has everything installed on it, when you install your old drive in your new PC, your new PC's installed version of Windows has no idea what that other drive is about, it's registry, a brain of windows that has a map and a bank of all the programs and files location (explained horribly, but I hope you understand) has its collection of programs, and the other drive has its own collection, they don't talk. The C drive of your old PC and your new PC may fight, you need to tell the BIOS which is your preferred drive when you install that old drive, I show you how to do it in this video. Your old drive, with the older installation of windows as it is will not function on this new machine, since Windows knows the older hardware (HAL), it will be different on this new computer and it will freak out. There is a chance it will work, but it will be crippled, even though, the hardware will be better, there will be incompatibilities, like planting your brain in another body, your brain has no idea what this new stuff is, it may work, but never like the original, even things that are better in this model, may not operate correctly with your brain and visa versa. Once you get your new PC, pop in this older drive, tell windows which is the correct drive to boot from, then start copying files from the old drive, to the new drive, pictures, music, documents, videos, etc. Then you will need to reinstall your old applications, in order to read some of the stuff your old computer could that your new computer cant, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, DaVinci Resolve and all your games and such. Long, but I hope it makes sense.

@boygirl 3 ай бұрын

does this still work if you don't already have any drives in the new PC?

@ThisBytesForYou 3 ай бұрын

So are you installing a used drive? If so, this drive will work, a machine needs windows: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e56cfImIot18j6s

@Plagued_Visions 5 ай бұрын

I just bought new parts for my pc... i am gonna use my old hdd and ssd from my past pc in my new pc along with an additional nvme on a new mobo. If i follow this video do i have to delete the drive completely or just go into bios and make my old ssd the boot drive? Cause the old ssd is the one that has my windows key on it! I am staying with intel just changing mobo, cpu, ram, and psu

@ThisBytesForYou 5 ай бұрын

You are changing a lot, that will trigger reactivation and your system will run slower, you dont have your key anywhere? A reinstall of windows will give you such a performance increase and especially with your new hardware.

@Plagued_Visions 5 ай бұрын

@ThisBytesForYou i do not have my key anywhere just on my current ssd boot drive in my current pc... so how do i go about swapping them over? Do i just swap them and then delete everything off them or just delete everything off of them before i swap them and on first boot reinstall windows?

@ThisBytesForYou 5 ай бұрын

@@Plagued_Visions is it a prebuilt system or do you have tied to your email?

@Plagued_Visions 5 ай бұрын

@ThisBytesForYou it was a prebuilt in the beginning but i swapped the cooler, case, gpu, and fans, now just upgrading the left over components

@ThisBytesForYou 5 ай бұрын

@@Plagued_Visions ok, chances are that will not stay activated, it's tied to OEM activation in the bios, tied to the motherboard. I was a product development engineer at Alienware, then later Dell and Velocity Micro and I managed OEM SLP activation. Chances are you will need to buy a key.

@uyfbfidrs 6 ай бұрын

thank you sir

@ThisBytesForYou 6 ай бұрын

@IronDaniel34 3 ай бұрын

Hey! Muchas gracias, Thank you very much for this vid, it help me a lot! Cheers!

@ThisBytesForYou 3 ай бұрын

Siempre un placer amigo, estoy feliz de que lo hayas disfrutado y muy feliz de que lo hayas encontrado beneficioso. Got you my friend, let me know if you need algo mas ;)

@GilBarOn 10 ай бұрын

Can I use the old drive without deleting the old material? I want everything I have there..

@ThisBytesForYou 10 ай бұрын

yup, just whats installed on the old drive wont work on the new drive, you need to reinstall it from the OS of the new drive.

@TheOlman35 Жыл бұрын

HI, Back at it again😊 I have now added a second M.2 to store my programs on so my main C drive is free, Well now it say i dont have permissions to write to this drive. Have you done a video on this or is this something simple that i am missing?

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Are you the administrator of your PC?

@TheOlman35 Жыл бұрын

Im the only one that uses it, so the answer to that is idk if i am, how would i check to see if i am? @@ThisBytesForYou

@TheOlman35 Жыл бұрын

Yes i found it and it says that i am.

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

@@TheOlman35 is Thai windows home or pro, did you install the OS?

@TheOlman35 Жыл бұрын

system is win 10 Home@@ThisBytesForYou

@KTHKUHNKK Жыл бұрын

Hello Genius Wizard. Is Recuva Still Free to use ? My camera SD card got corrupted today and lost some files. Unless you can recommend a different freeware. Mad Kuhn

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

yup

@KTHKUHNKK Жыл бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou Howdy I tried everything within the camera to recover my files such as. Repairing database. No Luck. So I got Recuva Downloaded again and ran my SD card through it. As you well know it asks you some questions first. So I answered a few questions in the last one said he must format the card. I thought what the heck. If I do that I'll never recover the files. But I did the format. Recuva took 15 or 20 minutes to scan my card. It came back and said no files found. What the Heck ?

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

file recovery is very iffy

@kuduzzzzovich 6 ай бұрын

hello,i did everything and my hdd wont work,i dont think its about hdd but its about pc,it just wont boot when i install hdd,when i disconnect sata it just starts but when its connected it wont start

@ThisBytesForYou 6 ай бұрын

Did you go into the bios and change the boot order like I showed you here?

@abruptartist 7 ай бұрын

What if my pc has a boot priority system?

@ThisBytesForYou 7 ай бұрын

Have you watched the video?

@Heremy-n9g Жыл бұрын

Yo!!! Thanks!!! I have no experience with hardware and i bought new pc, i had old one that didnt work bcs mainhard disk first died later motherboard died, new one had only 256ssd so i used old one(dead harddrive) that has 500gb it works well!! It turned out some system32 files were corrupted so it couldnt work as it was my main hard disk, its now my local disk D i just have to take 2 cables to install 2 old hard disks of 80gb now i can finally play war thunder!!!!

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

@jeremyfilbert7232 5 ай бұрын

mine showing blue screen after installing old hard drive, after i open the bios boot section, the old harddrive that i just installed doesn''t show up. any idea ? do the old hard drive have to be empty ? mine filled with my old data

@ThisBytesForYou 5 ай бұрын

Did you watch this video ?

@jeremyfilbert7232 5 ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou yea i did, on my bios boot section the new old hard drive does not show up so i can’t change the boot option like you did in your video

@ThisBytesForYou 5 ай бұрын

@@jeremyfilbert7232 when do you see the bluescreen?

@jeremyfilbert7232 5 ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou right after i turn on my pc after i add my old hard drive, the screen keep looping blue screen it says “your device ran into problem and need to restart”

@ThisBytesForYou 5 ай бұрын

@jeremyfilbert7232 right, it has become the main boot drive, so if you disconnect it, it works. See what the boot order shows when it's diaconnected and it works, then when you put the new drive, change that to what it was when it worked

@unofficialbrothers2795 8 ай бұрын

Thanks sir ❤️🇧🇩

@ThisBytesForYou 8 ай бұрын

@uzzzzal Жыл бұрын

you are the best

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

Thanks a million! I'm stoked that you enjoyed the video. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see!

@bridge5308 6 ай бұрын

I’ve never built a PC before, but it seems easy asf ngl

@ThisBytesForYou 6 ай бұрын

NGL, this is just adding a drive, check out my build guide and if you are interested I will send you the bios flashing, configuration, windows install and drivers guide too kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGSqgHp_f7WSqqMsi=PZYOfTG2OoCmUKXe

@dutenn 5 ай бұрын

But I want to just remove the windows partition? Keep my files

@ThisBytesForYou 5 ай бұрын

@dutenn the windows partition has your files on it, it has all your files on it. Move your files

@dutenn 5 ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou aaaaaahhhh shucks lol. Thanks for the reality check. Was just trying to avoid that

@ThisBytesForYou 5 ай бұрын

@dutenn well you can remove the windows partition, and create one but you will need to move the data again, you can keep it there just not use it to boot from, you can boot to another drive but you will water space, always trying to help my friend

@dutenn 5 ай бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou well I bought a new Lenovo legion tower, I am going to use current sab rocket 1tb via USB c / m.2 hub enclosure. Didn't know if it was going to try to boot from the hub (win 11) is on that.

@ThisBytesForYou 5 ай бұрын

well, if its an external hub it won't work, going through USB C, you have to make a lot of modifications to the installer, and its dirty. Check out this video, it might help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/anPXlYCZptyUfMk

@mrgameruk8561 4 ай бұрын

What a guy

@mrgameruk8561 4 ай бұрын

Thank you I bought a new ssd and cloned it from my laptop to put into a gaming pc and wouldn’t load or nothing

@ThisBytesForYou 4 ай бұрын

Wait... what did you clone from your laptop, the Windows drive, your C drive?

@ThisBytesForYou 4 ай бұрын

I need to make sure what you are doing, so I can tell you what to expect, since this video didn't go over cloning, this is just how to install a 2nd drive. If you want videos on cloning, I have those too but I am trying to understand what you are thinking you can do with cloning a drive from a laptop (a different machine), onto a desktop (a different machine)

@KTHKUHNKK Жыл бұрын

Never mind on that last question I got recover downloaded again it's doing a scan so we'll see what happens. Bud

@halalmonki 10 ай бұрын

@ThisBytesForYou 10 ай бұрын

W indeed

@DeathStriker88 Жыл бұрын

*le me who is still having his Kingston A400 480GB SSD and WD Caviar Blue 512GB HDD from his old laptops:

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

I still use them from time to time

@DeathStriker88 Жыл бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou i will use them after building my pc

@DeathStriker88 Жыл бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou but i got a problem here. My HDD showed up everywhere but my SSD can't be detected. What can be the problem? I tried minitool partition, diskpart, windows partition manager, multiple pc and laptop, but only my HDD can be detected. Nothing can detect my SSD

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

So that I can help, please list the manufacturer and exact model number of the following components: 1. Motherboard - manufacturer and exact model number 2. CPU - manufacturer and exact model number 3. RAM - manufacturer and exact model number 4. Video Card - manufacturer and exact model number 5. Power supply - manufacturer and exact model number 6. Monitor - manufacturer and exact model number 7. M.2 - Manufacturer and exact model number, if you have any, and how many you have in this system 8. Regular SSD - Manufacturer and exact model number, if you have any, and how many you have in this system 9. Hard Drive - Manufacturer and exact model number, if you have any, and how many you have in this system

@DeathStriker88 Жыл бұрын

@@ThisBytesForYou It is Kingston A400 SATA SSD that is not getting detected. I tried it in multiple laptops and PC but nothing happened

@cloudriz 3 ай бұрын

Why do you need any extra crap? I just all this inside windows without any extra software.

@ThisBytesForYou 3 ай бұрын

@cloudriz you know the awesome thing about a PC is you can do what ever you want with it. If you want plain and simple switch to a Mac. It's cool you don't need it, but the other billions of users do, crazy right? All the videos I edit, 25tb worth of videos, , needs storage, so do games and programs to edit videos, and photos, that's what I use my PC for, what about you? Windows is software, this is hardware. Need help in understanding the difference, I can help and maybe help you get better use of your PC aside from web browsing.

@KTHKUHNKK Жыл бұрын

How is Iggy doing this evening ?

@ThisBytesForYou Жыл бұрын

not good brother, I still dont have a job but tweaking and tuning the resume

@BulletESV 18 күн бұрын

Just built a new PC... now you have no money 🤣🤣 yup

@ThisBytesForYou 17 күн бұрын

Hahah, Thank you so much for your kind words and support my friend, it means the world to me and I am so very happy I could help you. Yup, we would never do drugs, we can't afford them with how much pc components are ;)