Transfering A hard drive from one computer to another

[Canadien_02]

i was wondering if you could just move the hard drive into another computer and it would read it automatically or you had to do something to read it?

 

[CCT]

Basically, you cannot just pop a drive that has an operating system into another comp and boot it.

Some times you might, but that involves more luck than anything else - same motherboard chipset, same components, etc.

You can 'slave' a drive and read the data from an existing operating system (I have never done it with a Sata drive but it must be possible).

 

[Canadien_02]

ok so i how would i transfer the hard drive to reteive the files from it and put it onto my other computer?