Hi ppl Got a wierd problem I have this old comp (400mhz) that some how runs Xp, so i decided to get my mates old one, which is a bit better (not by much 1.8GHZ). I decided to use my Hard disk from my old computer on it, since it has everything i need. When i connect it to the New computer it dosent see it for some reason. Its a Hp ATA/IDE 20Gb. The new computer came with a Seagate Barracuda ATA (20Gb) that works fine in the new comp,but dosent work work in my old comp A dont have a clue why it doesent work Any Help would be appreciated
The motherboards are obviously diffrent, both are ATA so they should work! I dont understand why they dont work in each computer, they should! help!! Could it be because Xp is on the Hp Hardisk and Nt is on the seagate one?? Anyone?
is the hd's jumpered as master & if using the 80wire 40pin ide cable is the blue connector on the motherboard & the black connector on the c:drive??
Check that you don't have 'cable select' jumpered and also if you want to put an XP built drive into another PC its unlikely to work as XP writes a loader to the hard drive. To get it to work you will need to do a low level format and reload the OS. Copy your data first. I tried once to over-write XP with another OS and the only way I got it back was with a low level format. Normal formatting is no use.
Ive had them on cable select and master, still no joy. So that means i will have to format the hard disk, there is no way of using my hard disk with all my data intact on my new computer? If so, any ideas oh how to back up 1boot 15gb, a suppose a could use a couple of data roms!
put both drives as master on each ide cable with the rom drives jumpered slave on each cable. make certain the drives are seen in the bios.
It could be your drive is formatted for FAT64 and the M/B doesn't recognise it. Check out http://www.wimsbios.com/ for motherbaord information. There's a load of stuff there. The previous thread is about the only possibility to get the data over if the drive is recognised. Reformatting for the same FAt system is then the answer after you've backed up your stuff.
Check out this website:http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/ What I refer to FAT64 meaning the NTFS file system because of the cluster size. Fat64 will be in the next generation of PC's and none of the old stuff is going to work with it. This is getting too deep. Without specific details of the system its a stab in the dark.
