Transfering files and burn info to a cd from one old pc to another to another pc?

Question

I have two old pcs and want to combine them into one pc.I need to burn my personal files from
pc A to pc B. But only pc B have burner. I will have to remove harddisk from pc A and fit into pc B.
May i know if pc B will automatically detect pc A's harddisk and allocate a drive name for that?
If so, can i access the pc A's files immediately and burn the files to cd?
Anyone knows how much will it cost to do
these at a reasonable price? Thanks

Pc A is an amd 350mhz pc without burner 10G hdd
Pc B is Pentium 2 pc with burner 20G hdd

Answer 1

You can just unplug the harddrive from pcA and stick it in as a slave on pcB, when you pull the hard drive out you can look at the top of it and it'll have jumper settings labelled something like Master ::::: Slave ::|:: and Cable Select ::::| (the | being the jumper, which is located near the power dongle and ide cable plugs probably), you just stick the jumper into the proper settings and plug her in and there you go, turn the pc on and burn away.

Or yeah you can just swap harddrives and put the burning software on harddrive A, and do it that way, it'll be free and easy unless you pay someone to do this simple task...

Answer 2

Yes, it should work fine depending on the file system used on PC A. Older versions of Windows like 95/98/ME used FAT32. Newer versions like 2000 or XP give you the option to use NTFS. If this was selected and PC B has an older version of Windows, it might not be able to detect the files made in NTFS.

Since both PC's are fairly old, I'm assuming that neither is running NTFS, so that shouldn't be an issue. Windows will assign the first available letter to the drive, and you can simply burn to CD directly from that location.

Just keep in mind that the if both drives share the same IDE channel inside your case, the master should be attached to the "end" connector and the slave should be attached to the "middle" connector. Otherwise you might notice slow access times or one of the drives might not be detected at all.

Answer 3

Might be easier to transfer the cd burner and driver.

Answer 4

accurate click on My workstation, bypass to homes. bypass to workstation call tab and click replace button. upload the workstation call and the workgroup or area. make positive both pcs are interior of an same workgroup or area. (not that diverse workgroups can't percentage, yet this can make it undemanding).