i have windows me just been given a computer with xp on it can i use me and xp hard drive together
2006-10-02 05:20:28 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
They arn't necessarily "me" or "xp" harddrives. The hardrive just stores the data...think of it like a shed...you don't necessarily buy a lawn care product shed or a bike shed...you buy a general use shed and put what ever you want in it.
You can have 2 harddrives but you will be accessing them from one OS (XP) and you will not have your old OS (ME).
This requires setup and if you don't know what you are doing and arn't computer savy it may just be quicker to take a trip to best buy or your local computer store...but it can be done!
2006-10-02 05:32:40 · answer #1 · answered by jasonstroble 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have good news. Yes, you can! In fact, there is a system called RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks), which allows you to run multiple hard drives so they work as one, although I would not recommend it (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID). However, if you would rather just see the information from the first HD get transferred to the second HD, so that you would not need two computers for different information, it would be easier to just grab the information (using an external drive, disk, or recovery service [although the latter is always the most expensive]) and transfer it to the second HD. A word of caution, however; when transferring information from the first HD (the Windows ME) to the second HD (the Windows XP), be sure that the second HD has the capacity to hold all of the old information, as well as still be useful for new information. If the WinXP hard drive doesn't have much more capacity than the WinMe one, maybe you could purchase a new HD for the WinXP (although I wouldn't worry. It probably has a high-enough capacity).
2006-10-02 05:40:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your question is not really clear as to exactly what you want to do. You now have 2 computers. Your options are: 1, use a KVM switch (cheap at Wilmart) and run both machine on one monitor. 2, attach your ME hard drive as a slave on the XP machine,(you will be able to access all your files by clicking on the drive.
If u want to dual both your machine then you have install the ME hard into the faster machine and let it install all drivers necessary, then place the XP hard drive into the machine as slave, and reinstall XP (not upgrade) on the new Hard drive. you will have a nice dual boot system
2006-10-02 06:09:54 · answer #3 · answered by dave 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can make one the master the other slave or secondary master and you can then boot from either Me or Xp Via Bios boot options I installed 8 Hard drives via two Raid cards just to prove some so called technician wrong.
Take care!
2006-10-02 05:34:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can have windows xp pro on the master hard drive and install windows xp media on the back up hard drive
2006-10-02 05:22:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean dual boot both operating systems on both drives?
If this is what you mean, then yes.
If your BIOS has a boot menu to select which drive to boot from, then you can use that to determine which operating system you want to boot up. I have a DOS primary partition on my second drive, and I just have to press F11 on bootup to select which drive I want to boot from.
If your BIOS does not have this feature, then you can buy a disk partitioning program that will allow you to boot from different partitions.
There are also free multi-boot programs out on the Internet (Google search for them).
2006-10-02 05:30:02 · answer #6 · answered by Balk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you have 2 os on 2 hard mean each on each hdd you can use 1 per boot up, just role of master and slave this coz you have 2 autoexe file that in diffrent hards. but you can install 2 os when you master/slave hards and have both on pc. just re install xp when me win hdd are master mode.
2006-10-02 06:16:01 · answer #7 · answered by dc_marshal 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, You can. I know causes I have a degree in Computer Information System.
2006-10-02 05:44:33 · answer #8 · answered by kevin m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you can and even more for as long as you have the necessary power to support multi drives. i have three sata drives plus a USB external storage on a 600 watts powered self assembled pc.
2006-10-02 05:27:57 · answer #9 · answered by ang-pogi-ko 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, you can. you also can make two partitions (one me and the other xp)
2006-10-02 05:29:07 · answer #10 · answered by phantom92_the_real_1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋