how do i move my windows 2000 hard drive to another computer?

Question

I was trying to move my windows 2000 operating system hard drive to a different computer, i've done that before with other computers and it works, it didn't this time.

Answer 1

Have you changed any of the jumpers on the drive? Try looking at the bios, if this is an older pc you may need to change something, like which operating system you want to boot..... Or you may need to use the bios to manually detect the drive.....

Check the jumper on the drive, make sure your plugging it into the correct cable....If the jumper is set to primary, and you plug it into the secondary cable, the computer wont see the drive.....Probably nothing major, you'll just need to play around till you get it.

Hopefully something works for ya, good luck!

Answer 2

You shouldn't move a hard drive with an OS from one system to another. The hardware will all have to be reinstalled by Windows, which can take a long time and might create incompatibilities with your programs or with Windows itself. It's best to backup the data on the hard drive and reinstall later. Otherwise, you have to make sure that your hard drive has the right jumper settings, since sometimes it needs to have a special setting for single or for master. Try the hard drive on it's own IDE channel first without any other devices. Otherwise, you have to explain whether it's not being detected by the BIOS or Windows isn't working properly; you weren't specific enough in your question.

Answer 3

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