I have a Compaq Presario model SR1503WM and I have the old hard drive from my old computer but it had windows 98 on it. Is it possible to just plug it in to the slave port wires and use it with XP. I want to update files on the 98 drive and also use it to keep music, photo's, and video's on. Saving my XP drive for my other endevors. Possibilites anyone? Problems?
2006-07-07 09:29:59 · 6 answers · asked by Anthony B 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
yes this will work if you have the master drive with windows XP on it and the slave drive with your data on it
2006-07-07 09:33:44 · answer #1 · answered by Mieog 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes very possible. I have three computers all have a master hard drive and a slave hard drive. The slave I use just for storage and my pagefile (on a small partition just for this purpose). Set the hard drive to slave, connect it to your PC. After startup open My Computer and you will see an icon for the added hard drive. (if you have set and connected it properly) Right-click the added hard drive icon and select format. That is it, and all the space on the added hard drive can be used to store any data you like. Good luck.
2006-07-07 16:42:40 · answer #2 · answered by usmcdcf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course you can. But for sure you've to buy new hard drive & make the old one as slave.
I advice you if you really IT look for someone to for you because not really easy to do by yourself
Greetings Lache
2006-07-07 16:38:58 · answer #3 · answered by Inssan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is possible, but make sure in the setup menu when you computer starts up (press F1 when your computer is booting up). You need to make sure it does not boot from that hard drive.
2006-07-07 16:36:35 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Lacey 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes simply format it or erase everything later
2006-07-07 16:33:24 · answer #5 · answered by VzjrZ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i think so
2006-07-07 16:33:27 · answer #6 · answered by ransoft2004 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋