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March 28th, 2007, 12:49 PM
#1
Junior Member
Old hard drive new system
Hi all, i need a wee hand.
right my old computer died on me so i got a new one, the old computer uses windows XP pro and the new one, XP Home and i really need the info from the old hard drive. I have tried to setup the old HD as a slave but it doesn't work, i've tried to make it the master but that doesn't seem to work due to a difference in the BIOS i think.
How to i get the info from an old hard drive into the new bigger hard drive?
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March 28th, 2007, 12:53 PM
#2
1) your new pc will not boot off the old hard drive because of driver differences especially if the new one has a new mainboard.
2) Setting up as a slave drive sometimes causes problems if the other drive is set to cable select, check the new drive is set to master. You should be able to boot the new pc and see both drives.
If the world doesn't stop annoying me I will name my kids ";DROP DATABASE;" and get revenge.
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March 28th, 2007, 01:34 PM
#3
Member
to avoid jumper setting set the master and slave hard drive in diffrent calbe, for the time remove cd-dvd from the MB and use separate cable for both hard drive.
to make work faster check in CMOS for the hard drive before booting windows.
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March 28th, 2007, 05:38 PM
#4
Hi Andy,
Does the new computer even recognise that the old HDD is there?
You said that your old computer "died".......... have you tried putting the HDD from the new computer in there? OK you will get problems because of the different Windows and hardware, but does it boot?
If I had the machine in front of me I would stick a boot CD into it (Ubuntu or whatever)........... if that booted then it is your hard drive that has died, not the PC
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March 29th, 2007, 03:43 PM
#5
Junior Member
nah defo the pc, and i cant put in me current HD as the old CPU is offski. when i put the old drive in as the master i get a message cant remember what it is though, i'l have to check when i finish work.
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March 29th, 2007, 05:46 PM
#6
Andy ... try to provide more info in the future for us (ppl who'll help you)
1. Are they both IDE drives (new systems use SATA) ?
2. Are you using same IDE channel? (You can try to set up the old one as "secondary master")
3. Is the old one recognized in BIOS at all?
4. Have you tried using Live Linux CD (knoppix, ubuntu) (like nihil mentioned)
Last edited by very_unhappy; March 29th, 2007 at 05:48 PM.
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March 30th, 2007, 03:02 PM
#7
Junior Member
the firmware is different, is that a problem?
old one 3.93
new one 3.06
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March 30th, 2007, 05:36 PM
#8
what firmware???
More info is needed
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March 30th, 2007, 11:06 PM
#9
Well,
My first question would be how do you know that the old HDD is still functional.......... check that, or have it done for you...............
If the old machine died as far as the CPU........... there is a good chance that the HDD went south on the same waggon train?
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March 30th, 2007, 11:53 PM
#10
Junior Member
to be honest i know nothing about IDE's and ATA's etc but i remember hearing somewhere that if the firmware isn't the same as the one your operating system uses, it can cause problems, is that true?
well possibly it did, the whole thing ran as slowly as possible, maybe a virus i dont know but it was working on the last day before i took it out.
Last edited by Andy_Baxter498; March 31st, 2007 at 10:14 AM.
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