The emachine wiring is totally different than the HP. I think I might need a jumper to get started. Could someone help me with this and what I need to complete this project. My power supply went out on the HP and its old so I could not transfer my info from the HP hard drive to the new one. Anyu info would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
2007-03-11 23:09:18 · 5 answers · asked by Her husband 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
If the ribbon cable that connects to your hard drive in the eMachine has three plugs, one for the motherboard and two for devices, then you can easily connect your old hard drive to the new system. You only need to set the jumper settings on your HP hard drive to slave and connect it to the unused connector on the cable, connect the power cable to the hard drive and fire it up. If the computer does not see the hard drive then during the initial boot up go into your BIOS settings and enable the hard drive on the motherboard, some systems automatically disable the unused ports.
2007-03-11 23:16:02 · answer #1 · answered by Mortis 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whilst I do not know your new machine, if it has only connections for SATA Hard Drives, you probably still have an IDE CD/DVD drive. You can temporarily unhook the cables from that and connect to the HD from your HP. You need to check the jumper selector and set it as either cable select or slave to be sure the BIOS will see it correctly (although if the CD/DVD drive shows as a MASTER then you can leave the jumper where it is). When you restart the computer it should then show your old HD as a secondary Master or Secondary SLAVE. Then all you need to do is transfer your data to the new HD. Select ALL and MOVE to: new location (C Drive?).
You can also buy a removable Hard Drive mount that is connected to the computer via the USB port. That will allow you to insert pretty near any IDE drive in it and either transfer stuff between drives or use it as a 2nd drive. The advantage with that is you can take it to a friend's place to swap large amounts of data.
2007-03-12 00:03:55 · answer #2 · answered by Traveller 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The new machine will be running SATA drives and the old srive is probably ATA and not compatible. You can however buy an ATA to USB converter and then run the old hard drive through a USB port. Hope this helps.
2007-03-11 23:14:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
use the backup cd's that you must have made at some point
just transfer the data
thats the best way
the old hard drive is probably 6 gig or so
the new one is probably at least 80 or so
not worth messing with jampers and cables for the extra 6 gig, even if you are comfy doing that sort of thing.
2007-03-12 00:53:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-18 04:23:31 · answer #5 · answered by seabrooks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋