Installing two hard drives with Windows XP on one computer.

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I have an old Gateway computer that no longer works. I wanted to take the
hard drive out of the old computer and install it in my new computer so I can
get all my important documents. Can I install this in my new computer which
currently has XP on the exisiting hard drive and the old drive I want to
install has XP as well? I've been told to use the files and settings transfer
but can not because the my older computer is no longer working.
 
Melissa said:
I have an old Gateway computer that no longer works. I wanted to take the
hard drive out of the old computer and install it in my new computer so I can
get all my important documents. Can I install this in my new computer which
currently has XP on the exisiting hard drive and the old drive I want to
install has XP as well? I've been told to use the files and settings transfer
but can not because the my older computer is no longer working.
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You certainly can. Just make sure to set the jumper on the old disk
to the "Slave" position.
 
Melissa,

Yes you can install it. Just make sure that the current drive is set as
master and old drive is set as slave. Then go into disk management (start,
run, type diskmgmt.msc and press enter) and assign it a drive letter.
 
Hi,

I have recently bought , installed and partitioned a new 250gb hard disk (as
slave at the moment) in place of the 40gb second hard disk that was full of
media. I now want to remove the orignial 40gb hard disk with Program files
and OS. If I were to install windows onto new disk, transfer setting and
profiles and copy drivers etc, can I then disable and remove orignal 40gb and
will the computer work? I want to use the orginal 40gb as back-up storage and
then put the 40gb disk full of media back in so I can transfer it back to the
250gb.
 
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