help moving drive to new computer

[gotrich]

I have a similar question. I have a new pc. I tried to move my hard drive to the new pc and it said no able to do so. How can i do this? I am thinking about going to a lap top pc and dont want to loose one of my cd uses and have to rebuy the program. I am only getting about 1 show a week right now and a full time student in college so what do I do?

Rich

[Beavis]

you need to buy a new internal hard drive, install windows xp then add your old hard drive to your new computer. make sure you change the jumpers on the old hard drive to slave.

[gduns - with the Lord]

iF YOU ONLY HAD ONE HARD DRIVE, IT WAS A PRIMARY HARD DRIVE, AND CONTAINED THE OPERATING SYSTEM. the operating system from one computer (motherboard) will usually not be compatible with another one.

thus, you would have to format and install an new operating system on it.

If the new computer already has a hard drive on it and operating system, you can install the old drive as a slave to the first hard drive. The problem is if the old drive is very much older than the new machine, it is probably going to be a slower drive, and will slow down the primary drive. in that the primary drive will only operate as fast as the slowest drive on the cable.

my suggestion, would be to get a matching drive and install it. and as long as you are at it you might as well buy the biggest drive you can get you will need it.

[Beavis]

didnt i just say that in short ?