Information recovery

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Tania Atkins

I have a system with a Western Digital HD, Windows XP
home, Abit 815 mother board. I have another HD that the
mother board crashed on, Intel 815EEA board. I had that
HD looked at and it is fine (this HD has Windows ME
upgrade). I want to put this old HD in my XP system to
recover information from it. Will the OS or mother board
chip sets give me any problems. I then want to leave
this HD in my system and format to Windows XP.
These two HD's are 30 and 40 gig.

Any help is appreciated (e-mail address removed)
 
Hi Tania...just make sure you have the disk from crashed pc as Slave and XP
as Master and you'll be good to go...Your system will still boot to XP and
you'll able to drag and drop the info from one to the other. HTH
 
Hi, Tania.

As Bob says, just hook up your old HD as slave (or secondary). Then boot
into WinXP and use Disk Management to assign whatever letters you like to
its partition(s). When you are done recovering files from that HD, use Disk
Management to delete existing partitions, create one or more new partitions
and logical drives, assign letters, and format them. Unless you plan to
install Win9x/ME in this computer, use NTFS all the way. If you are not
familiar with Disk Management, just type at the Run prompt: diskmgmt.msc

The only mobo/chipset issues would be for very large drives (over 137 GB),
which use 48-bit addressing, but your 30 and 40 GB drives should not present
any problems.

RC
 
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