chesire17201
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Hi all,
I have a dell inspiron 531 that the motherboard died on, so I just ordered a new insipron 546. My question is the new tower is pretty much bare bones, as i am going to swap all my other parts into it, dvd, media reader, etc. The older one had an AMD 3800, and the new one has an AMD 7550.
The new tower will have a 320g hard drive, and my old one is 160, both have vista, but i want to use the 160 as the primary and the 320 as extra, because all my info and settings are already on it, what do i need to do to make the 320 basically extra storage, with no OS on it.
I'm thinking just put the 160 in, boot to it first get it running and then reformat the 320. will it really be that easy? obviously i will have to mess with the hardware settings on the 160 for the newer processor and what not.
thanks for any help.
I have a dell inspiron 531 that the motherboard died on, so I just ordered a new insipron 546. My question is the new tower is pretty much bare bones, as i am going to swap all my other parts into it, dvd, media reader, etc. The older one had an AMD 3800, and the new one has an AMD 7550.
The new tower will have a 320g hard drive, and my old one is 160, both have vista, but i want to use the 160 as the primary and the 320 as extra, because all my info and settings are already on it, what do i need to do to make the 320 basically extra storage, with no OS on it.
I'm thinking just put the 160 in, boot to it first get it running and then reformat the 320. will it really be that easy? obviously i will have to mess with the hardware settings on the 160 for the newer processor and what not.
thanks for any help.