my pc has all my programs and files but the downfall is it as ancient, it has a pentium II and it very slow, a frind gave me one of his old pc's which is way faster. I tried to just switch the hd's but when i turned it on it just kept rebooting, so if any one knows how to do it please tell me. I have have alot of programs and files i collected over the years that i don't want to lose.
2007-02-08 06:12:54 · 9 answers · asked by lil_zuki 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Go out and buy some data transfer software. It will allow you to move the data from your old HD onto the new one (assuming you have enough room). OR purchase a portable HD and transfer the data from the old HD to that then connect the portable to your newer comp and copy the data there.
2007-02-08 06:32:54 · answer #1 · answered by radar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THIS can be done. some of you people know nothing about OS's. any win98 HDD can be put into another system and work. i have done this hundres of times such as what you are doing. the only excetion is XP. i don't know about ME or 200. as i have not messed with these crappy OS's. all you have to do is plug in the drive by itself making sure the jumpers are still set to master. the only problem you should face is the drivers for the new system. if you do decide to install both and your HDD with your programs is the slave, making sure the jumper are set to slave, certain programs will not work such as micrsoft word or such applications. you can get any songs or such non programs from it.IE documents. if you have the complete save program setup file on that drive, you can run the settup again and it will install it on the master drive. if you know a lil bit about files and directories, you can get the drivers off the slave drive, but you''l need to point to the path where the files are when it asks you for the place where you want it to search for the driver files...if you can't get it to work, then you can sign up for free at driversguide.com and all the drivers will be here.
2007-02-08 14:59:11 · answer #2 · answered by gas_indycar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem you are having is because windows customizes itself during installation to tailor itself to your hardware.
Often this means that if you try to boot the disk on substantially different hardware, it will not work. Sometimes if the difference is minor, it will re-detect the different hardware and work okay, but it sounds like the changes may be fundamental enough to preclude this possibility in your case.
You might be able to re-install windows on top of the existing instalation after you switch the drives, but I would make sure you have a good backup before attempting to do so.
You might be able to boot to safe mode and try to correct the driver issues there, but that might prove challenging to a less than advanced user.
2007-02-08 14:16:55 · answer #3 · answered by Amanda H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might try booting in SAFE Mode, then go to Device Manager and remove ALL drivers, Except for the hard drive controller, change that to standard.
Then reboot and let Windows find the devices and install the drivers
2007-02-08 14:29:15 · answer #4 · answered by mrresearchman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in a computer were company as provided to install 4 hard disk, in one CPU,
example u have 4 hard disk
in mother board there are two slot for hard disk connection
first primary IDE
second secondary IDE
in primary IDE there are two option
one hard disk will be master
the second will be slave
the same way on the secondary IDE
u saw, how u can connect 4 hard disk,hear one think is that u will not lose any data it will be safe unelse u delete the files
2007-02-13 01:49:23 · answer #5 · answered by theres_blr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can not do that. The OS on one hard drive remember all the hardware (mother board, video card, sound card,etc) of its PC. You can not just switch that hard drive to other PC, where all the hardware are different.
You need to install all over again.
Or if you just need space, then install the hard drive as slave, and you can only use it as extra space. You can not use OS or any installed programs in this hard drive.
2007-02-08 14:25:04 · answer #6 · answered by Henry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like a driver issue, with the OS on the HD, coming
to the new PC
2007-02-08 14:17:33 · answer #7 · answered by rodjared 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
#1 Take your old hard drive, install it to the NEW FASTER computer as a SLAVE DRIVE... On the back of the hard drive, you should see some PINS and a label that maybe says where you stick the PIN to make it MASTER or SLAVE or CABLE SELECT...
#2 Make the faster computers HARD DRIVE the MASTER, and install and operating system on it, like windows xp.
#3 INstall your old drive as a SLAVE drive in the old computer ( they can connect to the same cable )
#4 Run windows on the new hard drive, and transfer your files from the old hard drive to the new one.
#5 Format your old hard drive, and just leave it in as a backup drive...
2007-02-08 14:21:07 · answer #8 · answered by Danlow 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
next time, i would burn it onto a cd, you pretty much fryed it. (as far as i know)
2007-02-08 15:58:10 · answer #9 · answered by firstkipchak 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋