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December 21st 03, 05:12 PM
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Adding second hard drive (XP Pro)
I just got a new missle (computer), which I plan on implementing this
weekend. I ALSO have an older hard drive, that is perfectly fine, although modest in its capacity. Rather than use it for target practice, I thought I'd just drop it in the new machine. As it is already jumpered as a slave, is it the same as doing it on an older machine, i.e. cabling it up to piggy back either the CD ROM or the other 1st HDD as a slave?? Am I missing something, or being a bonehead (unknowingly) ? I guess this drive is 3-4 years old. Is it even worth doing this, or am I asking for heart-ache where it is not needed. I do know that I would have to reformat it to NTFS.... no problem, I've already burned all relevant files on it to a CD (from the OLD machine). Anything I am not thinking of? -- Frank Bachman Grumpy Aero Guy 
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December 21st 03, 05:12 PM
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Adding second hard drive (XP Pro)
No problemo. No need to re-format if you still want to read the info. Xp
also does FAT. I would go into bios and make sure it is identified correctly. Should work! "Kraut" wrote in message ... I just got a new missle (computer), which I plan on implementing this weekend. I ALSO have an older hard drive, that is perfectly fine, although modest in its capacity. Rather than use it for target practice, I thought I'd just drop it in the new machine. As it is already jumpered as a slave, is it the same as doing it on an older machine, i.e. cabling it up to piggy back either the CD ROM or the other 1st HDD as a slave?? Am I missing something, or being a bonehead (unknowingly) ? I guess this drive is 3-4 years old. Is it even worth doing this, or am I asking for heart-ache where it is not needed. I do know that I would have to reformat it to NTFS.... no problem, I've already burned all relevant files on it to a CD (from the OLD machine). Anything I am not thinking of? -- Frank Bachman Grumpy Aero Guy
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December 21st 03, 05:14 PM
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Adding second hard drive (XP Pro)
Great....I'll give it a shot. Thanks for the info!!!!
-- Frank Bachman Grumpy Aero Guy "Kraut" wrote in message ... I just got a new missle (computer), which I plan on implementing this weekend. I ALSO have an older hard drive, that is perfectly fine, although modest in its capacity. Rather than use it for target practice, I thought I'd just drop it in the new machine. As it is already jumpered as a slave, is it the same as doing it on an older machine, i.e. cabling it up to piggy back either the CD ROM or the other 1st HDD as a slave?? Am I missing something, or being a bonehead (unknowingly) ? I guess this drive is 3-4 years old. Is it even worth doing this, or am I asking for heart-ache where it is not needed. I do know that I would have to reformat it to NTFS.... no problem, I've already burned all relevant files on it to a CD (from the OLD machine). Anything I am not thinking of? -- Frank Bachman Grumpy Aero Guy
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