Just got this message from a customer

[Michael Culley]

I would have thought there would be no problem inserting a win95 HDD temporarily into XP. Does anyone know what they are talking
about?


"The one other thing I wanted to raise is transferrance of data from my old
computer to my new computer. I have quite a few word documents I use
regularly and want to transfer over. Can that be done by less laborious way
that email the document to my computer or copy to disc. I thought of
inserting the hard disk as a separate drive into my new computer but the
technicians tell me this is not possible. Apparently there is an
incompatibility between Windows 95 and XP. They also said that to do it, if
it could be done would slow down the running speed by 30% and there is no
guarantee of saving the data."

 

[David Hollway]

I would have thought there would be no problem inserting a win95 HDD

temporarily into XP. Does anyone know what they are talking

about?


"The one other thing I wanted to raise is transferrance of data from my old
computer to my new computer. I have quite a few word documents I use
regularly and want to transfer over. Can that be done by less laborious way
that email the document to my computer or copy to disc. I thought of
inserting the hard disk as a separate drive into my new computer but the
technicians tell me this is not possible. Apparently there is an
incompatibility between Windows 95 and XP. They also said that to do it, if
it could be done would slow down the running speed by 30% and there is no
guarantee of saving the data."

Michael,

I don't know what the "technicians" mean, but I've certainly never had
problems hooking up a second drive in this way. Windows XP supports both
FAT32 and the original FAT16 filesystems, so if the old drive is installed
it should just appear as drive D: (actually, XP being what it is, it'll
probably assign a letter after the CD drive, i.e E.
My personal preference in cases like this is to unplug the CD-ROM drive from
IDE1/Master, and plug the old drive in in its place. That way, one doesn't
have to mess around with the jumpers on the old drive. The alternative is to
jumper the old drive as Slave and connect it on IDE channel 0 - in some
cases, the main hard disk might need to be re-jumpered to indicate that it
has a slave connected to it.

Hope this helps..

-David Hollway
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[Michael Culley]

Thanks for the reply.

I don't know what the "technicians" mean, but I've certainly never had
problems hooking up a second drive in this way. Windows XP supports both
FAT32 and the original FAT16 filesystems, so if the old drive is installed
it should just appear as drive D: (actually, XP being what it is, it'll
probably assign a letter after the CD drive, i.e E.

Yes, I wouldn't have thought there wouldn't be any problems either. Maybe they just didn't want to do it, but I would be interested
to know if there is *any* truth to what they said. I can understand someone exaggerating something (turning a might cause propblems
into a will cause problems) but I wouldn't think someone would just make something like this up. I might just transfer the hdd into
a pc of mine and transfer the data via network to be safe. That way I haven't played around inside a pc someone else has supplied.

My personal preference in cases like this is to unplug the CD-ROM drive from
IDE1/Master, and plug the old drive in in its place. That way, one doesn't
have to mess around with the jumpers on the old drive. The alternative is to
jumper the old drive as Slave and connect it on IDE channel 0 - in some
cases, the main hard disk might need to be re-jumpered to indicate that it
has a slave connected to it.

That's my preference also, you can just place the hdd upside down on top of the cdrom and move the power and ide cable over.

 

[Nik Simpson]

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Thanks for the reply.


Yes, I wouldn't have thought there wouldn't be any problems either.
Maybe they just didn't want to do it, but I would be interested to
know if there is *any* truth to what they said. I can understand
someone exaggerating something (turning a might cause propblems into
a will cause problems) but I wouldn't think someone would just make
something like this up. I might just transfer the hdd into a pc of
mine and transfer the data via network to be safe. That way I haven't
played around inside a pc someone else has supplied.

There is no truth to it whatsoever, so you left with two possibilities:

1. The "technician" couldn't find his ass with both hands ;-)

2. He was just lying

I would recommend the customer avoids using the technician in future as
neither possiblity is particularl good in the long term ;-)