Welcome to Geeks to Go - Register now for FREE

Need help with your computer or device? Want to learn new tech skills? You're in the right place!
Geeks to Go is a friendly community of tech experts who can solve any problem you have. Just create a free account and post your question. Our volunteers will reply quickly and guide you through the steps. Don't let tech troubles stop you. Join Geeks to Go now and get the support you need!

Javascript Disabled Detected

You currently have javascript disabled. Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality.

Swapping hard drive

Started by elldallan , Jan 23 2009 11:50 AM

Please log in to reply

#1
elldallan

Posted 23 January 2009 - 11:50 AM

Member

Member
92 posts

Hope someone can advise me. I have 2 pc's neither particulary brilliant but cant afford a nice new shiny one. Here is my question..... One of my pc's is running xp with 2 hard drives both IDE, one with windows and the other (newer,bigger etc) as an additional drive with my music, films, itunes etc and I would like to swap this one to my other pc which is running vista home premium on a 300gb SATA drive. Now ? will I be able to plug in my IDE drive with my music etc and will my pc boot up and recognise it or will it not. Am hoping I can swap this drive over to save transfering all the files and so my music etc is still on a seperate drive. My motherboard has both sata and ide (dfi lanpartyut nf4 ultra-D) or will this not work. Any advice appreciated. Thanks