Can I hang and run a secondary internal hardrive from 2 TB to my existing desktop w/internal 1 TB hardrive?

Hello to you all,.

I bought a refurbished HP p6320y w/MSI motherboard, 2 TB hardrive, 8G ram, Athlon quad-core 2.8 Ghz, Win7sp1 + essentials. The 2TBhardrive took a dump. I have installed a 1 TB, 7200 RPM, drive hard Seagate to replace him until I got the original back 2 TB Hitachi. Now, I'm no tech-savy enough install/synchronize the two hardrives internally. Can I use my new 2 TB internal Hrdrive simply by plugging USB, or should it be installed and loaded w/O.S/drivers professionally? I know it's a stupid question, but money is tight, I thought that its worth asking anyway.
peace, boulonman

Basically, you have 3 options.

You can reinstall the drive and install windows using the recovery disc game, but if the 1 TB drive is big enough the work involved in all make from one to the other ay not be what you want.

If the motherboard has a SATA port and the spare cable you could plug the drive as a second drive. The only thing that needs to do is formatting the drive. He gets so its own drive letter and all the space is available for Windows, you don't need to install anything on this subject.

The simplest option is to install the drive in a box (search Amazon for one) USB drive. A bare drive may not be plugged into the USB port but it will allow you to use the player. Performance is not as good as attached to the SATA port but all space would be so available and you don't have to open the PC.

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