How do I do this? Because I don't want to buy a new drive. I just want to use the one I have with my new Motherboard and processor. and then boot windows XP on it. and I want to wipe it clean for this task.
2007-05-27 11:13:36 · 4 answers · asked by Jace G 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Your old hard drive will work fine in your new computer. Unless you have an interface uncommon to motherboards such as a SCSI. Any IDE EIDE or SATA connection will work. Hard drives on PC's aren't proprietary...yet. I'm sure they're working on that though.
2007-05-27 11:19:35 · answer #1 · answered by Damon M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You would just install the hard drive from your old computer into your new computer. Unless it is a very old hard drive, it should work just fine with the new computer. First, back up anything you might need from the drive, then wipe the drive clean by formatting the drive, then install XP on it, and update XP with the latest security updates. Then move the drive to your new computer. If it weren't for the "windows genuine" update, you could move it to your new computer then backup, format, and reinstall XP. But if you move the drive to the new computer before installing XP, its possible the genuine update might mistakenly think you have 1 copy of XP on 2 computers and invalidate your copy. That's why I think the Windows genuine program is flawed.
2007-05-27 11:29:04 · answer #2 · answered by userafw 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First on your old computer you need to change the boot options in the bios so that it doesn't boot any hard drive use a windows startup disk in your floppy if you have one. at the commant prompt type C:/ fdisk
Allow for large disk support then select to delete an active partition and continue this utility and then check on the partitions to see if there are any. once there are none then select creat a primary partition and select using the largest partition size available. When this is done then shutdown. Double check your jumper settings are correct for master or single drive on the hard drive. Then install it into your new computer. In your new computers bios make sure you have the boot options to be 1 floppy or cd rom 2 cd rom 3 none 4 none. Install your xp cd into the cdrom and restart your computer. When your computer boots select setup at the prompt if your xp cd fails to start automastically. After your computer has installed xp and your computer is reastarted select boot to hard drive as the #1 n your bios and then cd rom then floppy. You should be ready.
2007-05-27 11:26:52 · answer #3 · answered by James 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you wanted to wipe it clean then there's little issue why don't you consider this old drive something you bought from yourself for the new machine?
2007-05-27 11:23:42 · answer #4 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋