Questions about my new harddrive

This won't work - such adapters are meant to connect a SATA drive to an USB port, not the other way around.

Even if you find a way to connect your drive to an internal SATA port, you'll still be limited to USB2.0 speed. You're simply stuck with it...

Hmm I just bought a new Western Digital Internal Hard Drive but it doesn't show up in My Computer, but it the BIOS detects it and Windows installed it's driver successfully. Should I make a new topic or?

Does it show up in Disk Management? You may have to format it and give it a drive letter there.

ignatzatsonic said:

Does it show up in Disk Management? You may have to format it and give it a drive letter there.

Thanks for the quick reply, forgot to assign a drive letter. Would my new hard drive increase boot speed and performance of games without having the files on that one? Personally didn't test it yet because I probably have to restart to check boot time but I thought asking here would be quicker and easier.

CommandoBob said:

Would my new hard drive increase boot speed and performance of games without having the files on that one? Personally didn't test it yet because I probably have to restart to check boot time but I thought asking here would be quicker and easier.

Not sure I follow you.

The new drive won't improve boot times unless it is the Windows drive and is faster than the current Windows drive.

I don't game, but I'm not sure HD speed has a lot of effect on game performance.

ignatzatsonic said:

CommandoBob said:

Would my new hard drive increase boot speed and performance of games without having the files on that one? Personally didn't test it yet because I probably have to restart to check boot time but I thought asking here would be quicker and easier.

Not sure I follow you.

The new drive won't improve boot times unless it is the Windows drive and is faster than the current Windows drive.

I don't game, but I'm not sure HD speed has a lot of effect on game performance.

Is it possible that I transfer all files on my old HDD to the new HDD including Windows? My current old HDD with Windows on it is C: and the new one is B:, would that have issues with the registry? Or do I completely have to reinstall Windows on the new HDD?

You could clone the existing C to the new drive.

Or you could make an image of C and then restore that image to the new C.

The registry, Windows, and all installed programs would be part of that clone or image restore---the entire partition in question.

Typical programs for that sort of thing are Macrium, EaseUS Todo, or Acronis.

It's worth a try. Lots of people do it. I've always done clean installs because imaging/cloning isn't foolproof and because I don't mind taking the time to do a clean install.

ignatzatsonic said:

You could clone the existing C to the new drive.

Or you could make an image of C and then restore that image to the new C.

The registry, Windows, and all installed programs would be part of that clone or image restore---the entire partition in question.

Typical programs for that sort of thing are Macrium, EaseUS Todo, or Acronis.

It's worth a try. Lots of people do it. I've always done clean installs because imaging/cloning isn't foolproof and because I don't mind taking the time to do a clean install.

How do I make my new HDD letter C: when my old one is already C:?

Don't worry about it.

You'll only see one C. The old one will prestomatically become D or E or F.