I am considered VERY computer literate, but now I need help! I had a Hewlett Packard Pavillion with Windows ME 2000 operating system, but the power source went out, leaving me stranded--without a backup of my 30GB harddrive with irreplaceable info. My uncle took the hard drive and put it in a new tower, but that tower is ancient with less than 300mHz--SLOW!!! This way, I was able to keep the OS and info on my internal harddrive. Is there any way to do this again, but with a new tower (motherboard, etc) that has more speed (1Ghz or higher) and more RAM (256 or higher)? If so, how do I do it myself? I catch on quickly!!!
2006-10-12 02:55:13 · 6 answers · asked by Flighty 1 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
just take the hard drive out and put it in the new one. open the computer up, unplug the cables that are in the back of your hard drive (of course, make sure your computer is turned off before you do any of this), and then you might have to take some screws out in order to slide your hard drive out of its slot. then you just put the hard drive into the new computer making sure you put the same kind of cables in and screwing it in place. good luck!
2006-10-12 02:58:10 · answer #1 · answered by rchilly2000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Open the case. Find the hard drive. Unplug the two cables from the back of the drive. Remove any screws holding it. Take it out.
If it is going to be the only hard drive in the new computer:
Go to the new computer, put it into the new computer. Add screws as needed. Attach the two cables. Boot the computer.
Because the hard drive is in a new computer, it will have to load drivers for the new system board, video card, audio card, network card, etc. If after the move some of them are not working correctly, you may have to go to the appropriate website and download drivers for the devices.
If it is going to be a second hard drive in the new computer:
Look at the end where the two cable attach. You will find four to six parts of wires with a tiny plastic jumper over one of them. That jumper tells the computer whether this is the first (Master) hard drive or second (Slave) hard drive. You may have to move the jumper to make the hard drive a Slave drive. Look for a diagram of jumper settings on the hard drive itself.
Once changed, put the drive into the computer, screw as needed, attach cables and boot. It should boot off the original hard drive and display the one you just moved as a second drive. If you are going to use it only as a second drive, you can delete the OS (Windows) off the second drive.
2006-10-12 03:27:23 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a VERY computer literate person you already realize that moving a harddrive to another system is not a great challenge, as long as the drive system being moved has a compatible host system to move it to. Your uncle moved it once and now you want to move it to a newer tower, so you need a newer tower. You can buy one and just add this orphaned harddrive to it, or build yourself one and move it to that one. Just make sure that whatever newer tower you move it to has the compatible mass storage device interface. The orphaned drive is probably IDE, since your uncle's ancient system worked with it. So, find or build a system that will work with at least one IDE or EIDE interface.
Most modern systems are using the SATA interface, but you may be able to find a PCI card that will support an IDE or EIDE harddrive. Also, most new systems start with 1 or 2 Gigs of memory, and the processor is usually a dual-processor running at a minimum of 2Gigahertz.
2006-10-12 03:21:44 · answer #3 · answered by Froggie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course there is!
AND, meanwhile, you could run that 300mhz tower 50X faster, if you would simply run a LiveCDrom of http://pclinuxos.com
It includes 1900 games, programs, applications. Boots in the CDrom, runs in the RAM disc.
IF you press the "Install" button on the desktop, it offers you the choices of wiping out the hard drive, and doing a re-format; or, creating a 5.8Gb partition to run all of it, from the drive, at which time it will also install a menu in the MBR for both OSes.
The installed version brings you access to all 5421 free GAMES, programs, applications... I run 300 mhz systems here, plus, many other 'doorstops', that folks donate to teach 6 through 12 year old children how to program computers...
Linux is what Microsoft runs, on 45,000 computers at hotmail, MSN, Microsoft websites, and the entire corporate campus at Redmond Washingtion.
2006-10-12 03:30:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is easier to reinstall everything. But it will work, you just have to fix all the drivers. Start with the chipset drivers (CD with motherboard) and then look in the device manager to see what else is having a problem.
I hope you are backing that data up somewhere.
2006-10-12 03:47:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unplug machine..ground yourseld. find hard drive and replace. Just a matter of removing a few screws. if all else fails...google it.
2006-10-12 03:04:02 · answer #6 · answered by Jerome S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋