Hard Drive Question

I have recently bought a 160 gig hard drive, and I am about to buy a brand new computer, and I am going to install this hard drive in the new computer as a second hard drive. My question is: Would it be ok to put this new HDD in the computer that I have now for about a month until I get the new computer. Can I just take it out of this computer and put it in the new one? The only thing that I am going to put on it is some programs, and ALOT of music. Would it go into my new computer without any problems?

 

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I advice to remove the installed programs before you move it to the new computer, because most likely they won't work in the new system (they won't be in its' registry) and most likely will require a reinstall anyways. small freeware software might work though

no problems with non-installed program setup files
absolutely no problems with music

 

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yes sure,just pick it up from one and drop it into the other
then click the drive letter and youre up and running

just make sure you connect the jumpers and cable right,then run bios hd autodetect and save bios settings to allow the os to see it

 

yeah, most new drives require you to take the jumper off t set it to slave, they have picture of what the jumpers should look like, so also make sure that the other one is set to master too