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Adding old laptop HDD to new build, possible?
Hi, feel free to move this if it's in the wrong section, Ive only used this forum once before.
I recently built a computer from scratch. My sisters old laptop broke so I bought my parts to hand my laptop down to her.
Question, my sister's laptop motherboard failed and I need to know if I can put the laptop hard drive in my pc and grab the files off it since she needs some important stuff, without it getting mixed up and/or trying to boot from her laptop hard drive or something weird.
An issue worth noting, her laptop's hard drive has Windows Vista installed and my motherboard and display drivers don't support anything older than Windows 7. The drivers on her hard drive are also drastically different from the drivers installed for my parts.
Would I be able to simply make sure my current hard drive is the primary boot drive and when I put her hard drive in, it will simply be on the side and I can move the files to an external hdd? Or is there more to it? Thanks!
Edit: I know I can physically mount it in one of the ssd trays since its small enough and I have one more sata cable, so Im not asking if i can physically add it. This is about software I guess.