A situation you might be able to help me out with guys. Today I loaded windows xp professional onto a pc with a tiny 6gb hard drive so basically now that windows is loaded on, there is no room for anything else...however what I want to know is.. I have a 20gig hard drive from my old pc with songs,photo's and data that I havn't used in a good while but I'd like to use now again, so can I put my old hard drive into this pc and access all my data? even though there is a different version of windows on it? On my old hd I was running windows xp home edition, this small hd is xp professional. Basically I'm looking for info to access my old hd in this new pc? Thanks Sandisk
Just another quick question, would it also be possible to just take out the 6gb hd with the new xp professional and just stick in the old 20gb hd ? Or is it more complicated than that ? Thanks Sandisk
how much data is on the 20gig? if 20gig windows was not on that pc when loaded originally, it might just barf & do nothing as motherboard is different than when on original pc.
I don't know exactly how much off the top of my head but 5 or 6 gigs I'd say. I'd also like to keep the 20 gb hd also in the pc if possible. Is there no way that I could just put the 20gb hd in the new pc and just leave it the way it is and just access the photo's ect... when I want ? Or would I have to transfer them over ? Thanks Sandisk
That would be great, so I'd just put the other hd on the next connection of the IDE cable and my new windows should recognoize it? And there won't be any conflict between the two systems ? Thanks
Thats grand ddp, thanks once again for the input I just hooked it up and it's running perfect. I was just unsure of what would happen if I attached the other drive but it's fine, I now have a total of 26gb on the pc and can view all my old stuff. Thanks very much Sandisk
Can I just ask,could I have just put that 20gb hd into the pc in the first place without the 6gb hard drive in there at all? or was in necessary to have windows loaded onto the 6gb hard drive first? Also in the future if I was to get a much bigger hd to replace the 6gb and transfer the data from the 20gb hd to it, what would be the best way to re-format/wipe the 20gb hd but still leave it in the pc as extra space? Thanks Sandisk
It will be easier putting both in at the same time and delete windows of the 2nd one it uses about 1.2gb
xp home uses about 1.6gig of hd space whereas xp pro uses 2.1 gig of space. ghost the 6gig onto new hd, offline 6gig so new hd is now c:drive & copy info off 20gig onto new hd. once that is done then can format the 20gig. other option is to copy info onto new drive & ghost 6gig onto 20gig so 20gig is now c:drive & new drive is d:drive. did somewhat like that but partitioned my 160gig into 40gig c:drive & 120gig d:drive
Sorry in delay in posting back but been up to eyes in work. Yes so basically when i do get the bigger hd I think I'll go with the option of ghosting the 6gb onto it and then putting the 20gb's contents onto it and then format the 20gb hd. Firstly i'll have to get norton ghost and learn how to use it. Is norton ghost the best programme to use ? And is it difficult to ghost or clone your hd to a different hd? Also is it necessary to have a floppy disk drive on your pc? Thanks Sandisk
i think the ghost i use is 2003 maybe. i use fat32 on my hd's, copy ghost on the source hd, boot with win9x floppy & ghost from c: to d: take old c: off & set d: as c: than put the rom drives back on line as i use their data cable on d: as it is jumpered as master. can't have 2 masters on same cable.
Probably sounds more complicated than it actually is, but it does sound complicated lol. So ghost can't be used on systems with no floppy drive? I'll try pick up a copy of ghost in the near future and have a bash at it. Thanks for the info. sandisk
