Bought a new computer, as my old one died rather sudden (Major motherboard fault cheaper for new system than to fix) Now I want to get information off my old hard drive if I plug it into my new system and set it to slave. Will it register as another hard drive in “My Computer” next to the C: drive and will I pick what I want off it like when you attach a recoverable hub, Camera Etc…. Or will there be major personality clashes between the two as there will be two windows operating systems one on each and both hard disks will be named C: Drive will that cause a clash too?
Any help or advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated. 14/06/07 14:15
2007-06-14 02:16:34 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
It would act as a slave only. It would not conflict with the new drive as the computer recognizes it as the boot device. Just set it to slave, plug it in, and turn it on. It will just show as another drive.
2007-06-14 02:20:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well first thing is that it will allow you to pick between the two boot drives...however as for them both being called C:/ that can be a doozy being that the hd will have the address of the old system but if im not mistaken its nothing that partition magic couldnt resolve...I will have to further research the issue and get back to you on this. I just say drop the hd in the new computer and see what happens...only thing that can happen is that it wont boot up then you just drop either of the hd's and start over. IF you can get the old one to work by itself then you an use partition magic and make a partition on it and move all of your files to that extra partition. Then you can put it on slave and put in your other hd so you can have it for you primary. Hope his works out for you.
2007-06-14 03:04:38 · answer #2 · answered by TIME's Person of the Year 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make sure the motherboard you purchased supports the harddrive in question's type,(SCSI, IDE, ect..)The harddrive in which you wish to take the information from should have the jumpers set to slave 1 "if you only have one other harddrive set as Primary Master". There will not be personality clashes between the two operating systems as windows will automatically change the drive letter of the slave to differ from the primary master. It will then appear under "My Computer" as a second harddive, next to drive C:. It will then be available for all your information extracting needs. =)
2007-06-14 02:25:22 · answer #3 · answered by danny b 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can download any number of virtual machines. My two favorites are Virtual PC 2007 (made by Microsoft) or VirtualBox (made by Sun Microsystems). Both are free. VirtualBox works best if you wish to run Linux in a virtual environment and can run the Microsoft stuff as well. Virtual PC works the best for Microsoft Operating Systems. You will need .iso images of the operating systems for the virtual machines to work. As far as having two hard drives for one person and one for the other, you don't really need two. If you have one large one, you can partition part of the drive for one person when you add a user to your Operating System. That way, you can also separate files as necessary.
2016-05-20 01:02:07 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've done this many times. The primary hard disk will likely be C:, and the secondary as D: (or a later drive letter if you already have other drives allocated). Your new system will boot off the new hard disk & you will be able to get information off the old hard disk as you describe.
2007-06-14 02:23:07 · answer #5 · answered by some_dope 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can set it to slave and you should be able to collect data off with no problem. Make sure your BIOS sees the second hard drive.
There will be no clashes of OSs as your new system OS will be the dominating. However if you run a program off the older drive it will conflict due to registry errors.
Good Luck
2007-06-14 02:21:28 · answer #6 · answered by hwky 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For IDE, ATA, and SCSI hard-drives, If you set it to 'slave' and plug it into the same data cable (attached to the 2nd connector) as the new hard-drive, it will come up as your "D:\" drive and every file (except for the operating system stuff in sector 'zero') will show up normally.
I have done this many times, on many computers.
For SATA, firewire, USB, or other serial drives... hopefully another answerer has the answer.
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2007-06-14 02:23:26 · answer #7 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An easier way to do it is get a USB drive carrier. It's just a shell that you put your hard drive into and plug it into the USB port. That way it's an external hard drive and you don't have to worry about how to access it directly on the motherboard.
It works quick and easy and this is how CompUSA removes data to backup a drive when you need them to do this. BTW: You can have THEM backup any data you wish up to 5 DVD's for $99.
2007-06-14 02:32:34 · answer #8 · answered by Nedra E 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The drive letters are given by the operating system. It will probably appear as the next letter after the CD/DVD in your new system.
2007-06-14 02:19:31 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it will ignore the o/s on the slave disc, and can't assign the same drive letter to two drives. just as do you said, make the old one a slave drive, and it will be assigned a new drive letter
2007-06-14 02:21:44 · answer #10 · answered by medic391 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋