“If I purchase a hard drive in box from you guys- install it myself - is it blank with no OS or would it be plug and play?”

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• Internal type disk drives usually need to be formatted and activated to be used. There is no operating system on them. External drives usually are ready to use in plug and play. Check the format type, as some are not formatted to NTFS.

  Answered by gritty 8 years ago

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• This is dependent on a couple of things, first is where is your OS is downloaded at? If it's the hard drive being replaced or if you want to move your OS over to the new hard drive, you'll need to reinstall it to that hard drive. However, if you plan to keep the old hard drive you could just plug the new one in and play.

  Answered by Leah 8 years ago

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• The hard drive will be blank. You will need your recovery cd's to load it.

  Answered by Micky 8 years ago

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• it is a blank drive

  Answered by darenas2010 8 years ago

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• This is just an enclosure and not the hard drive itself.

  Answered by CommunityAnswer 8 years ago

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