I have some almost-new "old" WD SATA II drives; i.e., they are barely used, but not "Advanced Format." They are some I used on my old Win XP computer. I've wiped and reformatted them. Is it OK to use them with my new XPS 8700 running Windows 7 even though they are not advanced format?
And can one of these older drives be used as a system boot drive? If so, do I need to change anything in the BIOS or Windows 7 due to it not being an "Advanced Format" drive?
And if one can be used as the system drive, can I restore a disk image of the Dell factory partition and Windows 7 to it? Would I need any kind of special partition or drive utility?
Thanks for info.