If i take my old hard drive out of my computer and install it into my new one,........?

Question

will all data on the drive still be accessible or will i have to transfer it another way

Answer 1

yes it will be accessible, provided that u plug it into another pc

Answer 2

If hooking it up as the Primary hard drive, in theory it should work immediately if you wire it up correctly (remember how it looked fitted in the old computer before removing the wires).

If installing it as a secondary drive, the files should still be accessible, but hooking it up (and getting it to work) may be a little more complicated if my last attempt at installing a Secondary HDD is anything to go by.

Answer 3

I don't see why you can't. When you have fitted your old hard drive to your new computer,boot-up and on post bring up BIOS setup utility.

Your computer has two IDE channels (primary and secondary and each channel can be installed with one or two devices on the IDE channel.

Bring up the IDE sub-menu,

Under IDE HHD auto=Detection, press while this item is highlighted to prompt the setup utility to automatically detect and configure the IDE device on the IDE channel.

Note: If you are setting up a new hard drive that supports LBA mode, more than one line will appear in the parameter box. Choose the line that lists LBA for an LBA drive.

IDE primary/secondry master/slave (Auto).

Leave this item at Auto to enable the system to automatically detect and configure IDE devices on the channel. If it fails to find a device, change the value to manual and then manually configure the drive by entering the characteristics of the drive.

Refer to your drive's documentation or look on the drive casing if you need to obtain this information, if no device is installed/ change the value to none.

Before attempting to configer the hard drive, ensure that you have the configure information supplied by the manufacturer of your hard drive. Incorect settings can result in your system not recognizing the installed hard drive.

Answer 4

It will be accessible. But if you are installing it, you might need to change the jumper position so the old hard drive will be secondary hard drive, and not primary. The data will be accessible if you do it right. Good luck.

Answer 5

Yes it will still be access able, I have two separate hard drives and just change them over if one doesn't work for any reason.

Answer 6

If the motherboards are completely different you are going to have trouble. The best thing to do is to install it as a second hard drive (slave) and then your files will be accessible.

Answer 7

I've done this many times before, but windows XP is very iffy about different hardware, plus, both windows 98 and xp will ask for heaps of drivers.

however if you plan to use the hard drive as a secondary storage (not the boot drive), it will work fine, no hastle for drivers.

Answer 8

different than setting up new or greater RAM, swapping a HD is the least confusing situation you're able to do your self with a compute. basically open up the case, confirm the ability is off, disconnect the HD ability cable and the ribbon cable, hook your new HD in selection to the old one, and stir up your computing gadget. the computing gadget will straight away see your newchronic and set it up for you. you would be able to additionally decide for to apply an anti-static wrist strap too or a minimum of be keeping onto some thing metallic at a similar time as you do. do no longer forget approximately to unplug it although. i've got stunned myself a pair of cases and it hurts.

Answer 9

if adding to another system as a second hdd fine but change jumper setting (between power cable and ide lead) to slave
or use a fresh ide lead
if you want as the main hdd you will need to do a reinstall
if its ntfs you will have a problem if you putting it on a system pre 2000, will be ok after that

Answer 10

The data will be fine, but Windows will probably not boot.