would i be able to take my internal hard drive...?

Question

out of my old computer and put it into an XPS 400 and everything on there should be there and work just fine?

ive got all my music, photos, videos, computer games on there.

its a 160GB internal maxtor.

thanks

phil

sorry forgot to say that. the HD i want to take out is the second one in there, and is marked as slave drive. so it will be like a plug and play when i put it in the new computer?

thanks for your answers

Answer 1

**Update** yes it's pretty much plug & play. Your new computer must have an EIDE connector (some newer computers only have SATA) and you may need to change jumper settings.

If your new computer's main drive is EIDE, set that one as master and leave the old one jumpered as the slave drive. If your new computer's main drive is SATA, set your old drive to master (since it will be the only EIDE drive present)

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As a 2nd drive, sure- it will work in the XPS 400 just fine. But as the main/boot drive, probably not. The hardware is completely different (motherboard, video, sound, network etc). The device drivers for the old machine wouldn't load properly and might even crash at startup if you tried to boot up on a different computer.

You can copy data files (documents, music etc) to external devices like flash drives, to CD/DVD or even directly between hard drives. But software programs must be reinstalled onto your new computer from the original CDs or downloaded again.

To avoid reinstalling you'd need to use a program like Moveme or Laplink PCMover.

Answer 2

You can move it into the new computer just make sure the drive in the new computer is set as master and not cable select, the set the old drive to slave Being the new computer probally has a SATA drive and your old drive will probally be ide you computer may only have one ide connection in which case you will have to tie it in with the cdrom if there is no second ide controller

Answer 3

on th4e back of the harddrive is a funny looking type of jumper ..itas usually bblack andd is needed for the computer to recognize the harddrive ...change it to the seytting called sl on the back short for slave Master /Slave configuration is necessary for the computer to see the other harddrive you can use th same size bay the new drive occupies ..remember ..change the jumper to sl or slave for the compuiter to read it .It will automatically do this ..make sure the computer is off when you connect the harddrive

Jorell

Answer 4

well type of of a drive is it the format?? and r u gna use it as a bottable drive? or just a slave for files n wutnot?? if just for files then on the back of the hd change the jumpers to slave configure ur bios and ur set to go

Answer 5

It will be able to run perfectly in the XPS, so have no worries. Remember to set the first HD as "Master" and the one that you just plug in as "Slave". (Any CD/DVD Rom or burner MUST SET AS "SLAVE")

Answer 6

should be ok....just make sure don add too much hdd in the comp cause of not enuff power in psu