Hi all. I recently got a new cpu. The motherboard on my old cpu got fried. I want to take the old harddrive in my old cpu and put it into my new cpu. There is a slot and a wire ready in my new cpu for an extra harddrive. However, I was wondering if since my old cpu ran on windows 98 and my new cpu runs on windows xp, will the old harddrive work on my new cpu. If it will, will also the information on it be erased. Thanks for your help.
hello there adaddict, im guessing by cpu you mean a new pc? (cpu being the main processing chip on the motherboad) To answer your main question the old hard drive will still work but you cant run both windows 98 and XP. You will have to format the old dive before you could use it, which will delete the windows 98 and the other data thats on it. You could then use it for extra storage space. *** im not sure how good your pc skills are so bare with me for this next bit. If you want to keep the data from the old drive you could take out the NEW hard-drive and replace it with the OLD one, when your computer boots it will then be running windows 98 as before and will have all the old data on it. You could then back up whatever you wanted to keep to a disk(s). It's alot to take in if you havent done anything like this before but if you want to give it a try just post any questions and i or one of the other guys will give you a hand. haim
can have the old drive as slave to pull info off but win98 won't work. can't use the old drive as master if new hd is in nt format as win9x will see the drive as non-dos.
I do not fully care if the information on my old hd is still accessible. If I could do it easily, by just popping in it great, but since I can't, no problem there. I did not have anything that important on it anyways. So all I have to do is turn the computer off and put in my old harddrive and connect the wire to it. When I turn my computer on, I guess I will get a screen to format it? Is this right? If it is, I'll do it. Like I said, the info on the old hd is not too valuable.
I'd say follow everyone elses advice and hook it up, click your start> right click my computer> manage> disc management> click your new drive that should show up> action> format you should be set.
Okay. I went to put in the hd into my new comp and i hit a problem. The wire that is in the new comp for an extra hd is different than what my old comp had. My old comp had a wire with holes in it into which four metal sticks(sorry, but I don't know the technical words) on the hd. However, the new comp's wire is flat and thin and it has smaller holes in it. This wire fits into where a larger broad cable (2 rows of pins)went into my old hd. But this wire is only one third of the size of the whole part on the hd. Sorry for the broad descriptions. If pics help, I can post some of what I mean.
Sounds like the board has serial input (S-ATA). Where do your DVD or CD drives plug into? Your hard drive has the same interface that your optical drives do. Your old system should have 1 power and 1 big ribbon coming out of a drive going into the board. You can hook up your extra HD through the extra input I guess you should have (without more info no one can help there, what kind of machine you just get?) Or patch it in along with your DVD/CD drive for the whole slave/master thing. Steal the cord off your old computer and use it in the new.
Okay. I am a little confused of what eactly I should do. I recently got a Dell Dimension 5150. It has a: Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 630 w/HT Technology (3.0GHz,800FSB) Win XP home 512MB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 400MHz (2x256M 80GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™ Here are three pics of my new comp and of my old hd: Hopefully these pics can answer your questions about my comp.
As Deadrum stated, your new computer uses SATA interface for its hard drive. Your old hard drive is PATA (IDE). You should have a wide ribbon cable going to your DVD drive. As long as you don't have 2 optical drives installed, there should be a spare plug available on the ribbon going to the DVD drive. Plug that into the back of your old hard drive...that will provide the data connection to your hard drive. Also plugged in to the DVD drive should be a 4-pin Molex connector (it has red, yellow, and black wires)...that provides the power. Look around inside the case, follow the wires if you have to, there should be at least one spare Molex connector in there. Plug it into the back of your old hard drive. If for some reason there is not a single spare molex connector, as a last resort you can buy a "Y" splitter at the local computer store that will allow you to share the power from one of the existing Molex connectors.
Are they connected by the same ribbon, or are they separately plugged into 2 seperate IDE slots? Most motherboards have 2 slots that control any combonation of burners/ hard drives. If they are connected together, use the open slot right next to where they are already plugged in at. If 1 device on each slot, look at the ribbon closely and you should see an extra input, simply plug that in your new hard drive, or connect both optical drives on the same one and use your hard drive alone on one, either way should work for you.
