The master hard drive is using Win XP, the pending slave has Win95Plus if that info is important.
2006-11-29 05:04:02 · 9 answers · asked by Bob B 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
as a slave drive...yes...as a master, no
2006-11-29 05:07:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first question that comes to mind is, "Do you own the Win XP disk from the first computer? If the answer is yes then my second question is, will the new computer accept the XP Operating system. The Windows Xp operating system is computer specific, meaning the HDD has the drivers for the previous computer. If you install it onto another computer in order to use the XPOS then your computer will not recognize the HDD. If the computer happens to recognize the HDD and loads the drivers for the new computer, more than likely you will have to activate the XP OS. MS will insist you buy another XP License. Check out the source list below. Use Google to find anything.. Good Luck. WILL
2006-12-02 01:30:52 · answer #2 · answered by Tom H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you attach a hard drive (or CD drive) if it is on the same IDE ribbon cable (the wide cable in the back of the drive) as another device, then one of the devices needs to be set to master and the other as slave. This is done by moving a little jumper that is near where the power cable plugs into the drive.
You will be able to use the drive for file storage, but you will not be able to run Win95 from it. So you will probably want to format the drive before using it. (If you have any pictures, music, etc on it you want be sure to copy them off first).
2006-11-29 05:39:10 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Note only the above..but if you have try using windows xp on a system thats using win 95, you might not have the resources to go around, and if you did, it would run ever so slow, where you probably wouldnt be able to enjoy windows xp at all on it.
Youd have to go into the BIOS and manually adjust to detect the new hard drive.
But it wouldnt be a plug in and play type deal thats would beauto configured if you were swapping hard drives between 2 newer computers.
Try upgrading your win95 to something that reflects the system RAM you have.
Id say stick to a Win98SE upgrade, or even 2000...but dont even think about trying Windows ME.
Windows ME is the worst O.S. ever created
anyne who has it or ever had it knows what I mean
2006-11-29 05:13:09 · answer #4 · answered by writersbIock2006 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you attach the removed hard drive as the secondary drive then you will be ok but if you make it primary then it won't work as the hardware information for which that hard drive was configured will change due to a change in pc.
2006-11-29 05:07:46 · answer #5 · answered by Bryan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-13 08:55:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will work as slave. Sometimes 9x will take the change to master without the CD
2006-11-29 05:34:15 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IT will work as long as it is the same manf. as the other.. eg: dell to a dell or h.p. to an hp. if you try to do one.. such as dell to a hp it wont work.. youd have to rewrite the boot sector with fdisk although this is riskey.... youll have to do it everytime.. tip: in the future you can create a partition... and install 2 diffrent o/s's on them.. one for the one computer and one for the other computer.. this way if your going to be using 2 computers and the same o/s you can still boot.. and you can always get files off the other partion. the other computer will see it as a second h.d. but wont boot that sector. Vist your manfs. web sites for details..
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2006-11-29 05:09:21 · answer #8 · answered by The Tech GUy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If your computer is not working properly while you are working on it, it could be a problem with device drivers, hardware or software.
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2006-11-30 03:42:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋