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Dropbox can't start after I moved hard drive to a new computer.
Hello!
I have physically moved my Dropbox hard drive to a new-old computer. I had this hard drive in my main computer, and now moved it to my 2nd home computer and wanted to install Dropbox ...
Hey rvenes - sorry to jump in here, but at this point I'd suggest a clean, advanced reinstall where you'd be able to point your Dropbox folder to your desired drive and select the folders you'd like to be synced on your new computer.
Let us know how it goes!
I was planning to do something like what rvenes did. I was going to install the synced drive from my old computer in my new one. I'm glad I looked here first. Are these the steps you would recommend:
- Un-sync Dropbox from the old drive on the old computer.
- Erase and reformat the old drive.
- Install the reformatted drive in the new computer.
- Re-sync Dropbox with the old drive.
Walter
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHi wmflars - thanks for joining the discussion here.
Before I make any suggestions on the steps you'll need to use, can you let us know your computer's OS and the status and version of the Dropbox desktop app that's installed on your old computer as shown in the system tray/menu bar?
If you make sure that the folder path is exactly the same on both devices, you shouldn't have to go through these steps, only install the app on the new computer and point your Dropbox folder to the drive (and folder path) you'd like to use.
