⚜️ You can take the internal hard disk of an old computer and install it as an additional drive in a new one, or consider a more flexible alternative.

⚜️ Move my old hard drive to my new computer
- You can almost certainly remove the hard drive from an older machine and attach it to a newer machine.
- You may be able to install it internally.
- Consider placing it into an external enclosure to make it a USB drive.
- You will not be able to transfer installed applications or Windows itself.

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0:00 Move my old hard drive to my new computer
0:55 Installing the drive in another machine
2:00 Use an external enclosure
2:40 Getting the right enclosure
4:00 What you can’t do

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