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Installing two hard drives with Windows XP on one computer.
I have an old Gateway computer that no longer works. I wanted to take the
hard drive out of the old computer and install it in my new computer so I can get all my important documents. Can I install this in my new computer which currently has XP on the exisiting hard drive and the old drive I want to install has XP as well? I've been told to use the files and settings transfer but can not because the my older computer is no longer working. |
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Installing two hard drives with Windows XP on one computer.
"Melissa" wrote in message ... I have an old Gateway computer that no longer works. I wanted to take the hard drive out of the old computer and install it in my new computer so I can get all my important documents. Can I install this in my new computer which currently has XP on the exisiting hard drive and the old drive I want to install has XP as well? I've been told to use the files and settings transfer but can not because the my older computer is no longer working. You certainly can. Just make sure to set the jumper on the old disk to the "Slave" position. |
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Installing two hard drives with Windows XP on one computer.
Melissa,
Yes you can install it. Just make sure that the current drive is set as master and old drive is set as slave. Then go into disk management (start, run, type diskmgmt.msc and press enter) and assign it a drive letter. "Melissa" wrote: I have an old Gateway computer that no longer works. I wanted to take the hard drive out of the old computer and install it in my new computer so I can get all my important documents. Can I install this in my new computer which currently has XP on the exisiting hard drive and the old drive I want to install has XP as well? I've been told to use the files and settings transfer but can not because the my older computer is no longer working. |
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Installing two hard drives with Windows XP on one computer.
Hi, I have recently bought , installed and partitioned a new 250gb hard disk (as slave at the moment) in place of the 40gb second hard disk that was full of media. I now want to remove the orignial 40gb hard disk with Program files and OS. If I were to install windows onto new disk, transfer setting and profiles and copy drivers etc, can I then disable and remove orignal 40gb and will the computer work? I want to use the orginal 40gb as back-up storage and then put the 40gb disk full of media back in so I can transfer it back to the 250gb. "tfw48079" wrote: Melissa, Yes you can install it. Just make sure that the current drive is set as master and old drive is set as slave. Then go into disk management (start, run, type diskmgmt.msc and press enter) and assign it a drive letter. "Melissa" wrote: I have an old Gateway computer that no longer works. I wanted to take the hard drive out of the old computer and install it in my new computer so I can get all my important documents. Can I install this in my new computer which currently has XP on the exisiting hard drive and the old drive I want to install has XP as well? I've been told to use the files and settings transfer but can not because the my older computer is no longer working. |
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