Hard Drive(s) question

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nunya

I just purchased a new computer running XP. My question is can I add the HD
from my old machine to the new one with a different OS? The old one is
WinMe. I'd like to pull off files from the old one and then reformat it to
XP. Or will it not be compatible with XP?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Hi,

Yes, you can connect the old HD to your new computer, as
long as you make it a slave drive instead of master drive.
Make sure you go to the back of the HD and jump it
correctly and make sure the new HD is as well. Once you
have the cables all connected, start your computer and it
should detect your old HD automatically and assign the next
logical letter to it. Just go into Explorer and start
copying files to your new HD. Good luck.

Sleepless
 
Hi, Nunya.

As the others said, No Problem!

Be sure to find Disk Management. This is a new utility built into Win2K and
WinXP that we've never had before. It partitions and formats drives, so
that we never need to use FDISK and Format.exe. It even assigns and
reassigns "drive" letters, which we used to do with Device Manager in
Win9x/ME. There is an excellent Help file in Disk Management that explains
a lot about disk and file systems that users have wondered for years. Spend
an hour or two learning to use this utility and it will pay you dividends
for a long time.

DM is buried under layers of mouse-clicks. My favorite way to find it is to
type at the Run prompt: diskmgmt.msc

RC
 
Hi, Nunya.

As the others said, No Problem!

Be sure to find Disk Management. This is a new utility built into
Win2K and WinXP that we've never had before. It partitions and
formats drives, so that we never need to use FDISK and Format.exe. It
even assigns and reassigns "drive" letters, which we used to do with
Device Manager in Win9x/ME. There is an excellent Help file in Disk
Management that explains a lot about disk and file systems that users
have wondered for years. Spend an hour or two learning to use this
utility and it will pay you dividends for a long time.

DM is buried under layers of mouse-clicks. My favorite way to find it
is to type at the Run prompt: diskmgmt.msc

RC
Click to expand...

Appreciate all the help guys. I was afraid that since the two OSes were
based on different kernels I might have trouble.
 
A little explanation.

If FAT16 then all MS operating systems will be able to read/write to them
If FAT32 then all MS O/S since Win 95 OEM SR2 can read them
If NTFS then only NT based OS can read them ie NT4, W2K, WXP

Regards
Mark Dormer
 
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