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Hard Disks
- Thread starter robbie75
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moving a hard drive from one computer to another without reistalling windows is likely to be problemmatic. as ajacobs just said most of the drivers are going to be different. it's a different motherboard, sound card, video card, etc etc. Besides, widnows XP might not let you move it at all. it might boot up and tell you you've put it on a new machine and then lock you out. i have successfully moved drives from one computer to the next, but i think the last time that worked i was on windows Me. i don't think...i have had it work with windows xp. even if you do get it to work, you will likely have a rather unstable system. maybe not, but it's likely.
if you try this...i would try connecting your old hard drive to the new Dell and see if you can get it to boot from the old drive. If they are both IDE type hard drives, you will likely have to switch the jumper settings on the new dell hard drive to be something like "slave" and not have it set as "master" since your old hard drive is likely set to that already. or you could set the old drive to slave and then hook it up. but other than that and making sure it uses the old hard drive as the first boot device in the BIOS i don't think you'd have to do anything else. you really probably should back up any data you don't/can't afford to lose. i mean you are messing with your hard drive so anything could potentially go wrong. i mean hell you could even drop the old drive and mess it up. ya just never know.
if you try this...i would try connecting your old hard drive to the new Dell and see if you can get it to boot from the old drive. If they are both IDE type hard drives, you will likely have to switch the jumper settings on the new dell hard drive to be something like "slave" and not have it set as "master" since your old hard drive is likely set to that already. or you could set the old drive to slave and then hook it up. but other than that and making sure it uses the old hard drive as the first boot device in the BIOS i don't think you'd have to do anything else. you really probably should back up any data you don't/can't afford to lose. i mean you are messing with your hard drive so anything could potentially go wrong. i mean hell you could even drop the old drive and mess it up. ya just never know.
provenlogic
Lightwave Alien
Birreboi, that would not really be a good idea. Your OS/software and your hardware go hand and hand. I'm not saying you couldn't do it, but actually it might not even work at all, with the number of things that would have to be changed in the OS. It would be like removing someone's brain and plopping it in someone else's body and expecting it to work without any problems
I'm sure with a lot of work you MIGHT get it to work, but I have my doubts about that. It would be rife with problems. Certainly just a few years ago this wouldn't be an issue; you couldn't have done it at all with an older OS and hardware.
If you did somehow manage to do it, you would have to uninstall all the drivers for your old hardware, and install the drivers for your new computer's hardware. Not to mention there would be unnumbered changes that would need to be made in your registry.
But I seriously doubt it would actually work at all. The sheer number of possible problems alone would make me say don't even try it.
Instead, a MUCH MUCH better solution is this. Once you have your new computer all set up, take your old hard drive out of your previous computer, and install IT into your new computer. Then pull all the information you want off of it, and onto your new HDD. Once you have everything you want, you can format the old disc. Then you'll be using your newer, LARGER HDD as your system drive, and you'll have your old 160GB drive for miscellaneous storage.
I'm sure with a lot of work you MIGHT get it to work, but I have my doubts about that. It would be rife with problems. Certainly just a few years ago this wouldn't be an issue; you couldn't have done it at all with an older OS and hardware.
If you did somehow manage to do it, you would have to uninstall all the drivers for your old hardware, and install the drivers for your new computer's hardware. Not to mention there would be unnumbered changes that would need to be made in your registry.
But I seriously doubt it would actually work at all. The sheer number of possible problems alone would make me say don't even try it.
Instead, a MUCH MUCH better solution is this. Once you have your new computer all set up, take your old hard drive out of your previous computer, and install IT into your new computer. Then pull all the information you want off of it, and onto your new HDD. Once you have everything you want, you can format the old disc. Then you'll be using your newer, LARGER HDD as your system drive, and you'll have your old 160GB drive for miscellaneous storage.
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cozmik
Guest
With a corporate volume license, certain high volume ones, there is no activation. Same with Office in that version. So that wouldn't be an issue, but it's unlikely he has that. It's expensive and hard to come across (though I happen to have a copy of both Office and XP like that
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There is another way to go before you take the hard drive out of your old computer.
Turn your old computer into a server and as time progresses add hard drives to it, all it would be used for is storing all your data.
Turn your old computer into a server and as time progresses add hard drives to it, all it would be used for is storing all your data.
provenlogic
Lightwave Alien
You're welcome birre.
VIC - Why do that when he can just add the HDD to his new computer and not have to bother with networking and the extra power consumption of another computer?
VIC - Why do that when he can just add the HDD to his new computer and not have to bother with networking and the extra power consumption of another computer?
Just reminded me of this article from pop sci a while back: I have an old computer in the closet waiting for me to do it to instead of taking out the two hard drives and tossing the rest. (I already have a network set up at home for my two current computers, the old one in the closet will serve as a server)
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Your whole life is on a hard drive: music, e-mail, family photos, tax returns. If that drive dies, then what?
Businesses that need to keep their data safe use a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) server, a stack of connected hard drives that functions as one disk. The servers simultaneously write multiple copies of data, so if one drive fails, nothing is lost. Retail home-RAID arrays start at around $700 for 750 gigabytes, but if you’ve got an unused desktop computer lying around (or want to pick one up on eBay), it’s easy to build your own RAID with as much storage as you want.
There are four main types of RAID, each of which makes tradeoffs between total storage size and redundancy. I used a RAID 5 array, which gave me 1.2 terabytes of storage from five 300-gigabyte disks. At that size, I saved about $550 over an off-the-shelf version. Just plug the drives into a RAID controller, a card that slips into an expansion slot inside your computer, and you’re done. Your Mac, PC or Linux operating system will treat the RAID as a single disk. The machine plugs into your home network, so you can save to it—and pull file off it—from any computer in the house. And you can upgrade it with bigger drives down the road so that your digital safehouse never runs out of room.
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Your whole life is on a hard drive: music, e-mail, family photos, tax returns. If that drive dies, then what?
Businesses that need to keep their data safe use a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) server, a stack of connected hard drives that functions as one disk. The servers simultaneously write multiple copies of data, so if one drive fails, nothing is lost. Retail home-RAID arrays start at around $700 for 750 gigabytes, but if you’ve got an unused desktop computer lying around (or want to pick one up on eBay), it’s easy to build your own RAID with as much storage as you want.
There are four main types of RAID, each of which makes tradeoffs between total storage size and redundancy. I used a RAID 5 array, which gave me 1.2 terabytes of storage from five 300-gigabyte disks. At that size, I saved about $550 over an off-the-shelf version. Just plug the drives into a RAID controller, a card that slips into an expansion slot inside your computer, and you’re done. Your Mac, PC or Linux operating system will treat the RAID as a single disk. The machine plugs into your home network, so you can save to it—and pull file off it—from any computer in the house. And you can upgrade it with bigger drives down the road so that your digital safehouse never runs out of room.
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provenlogic
Lightwave Alien
Well you know you don't have to have a seperate server to have a RAID array. You can set up a RAID 1 array (basically this creates a duplicate of one hard drive on another, in case one fails) in your own computer, without relying on a seperate machine like a server.
In fact most new computers come with a motherboard that has a built in RAID chip onboard. My personal workstation has 3 RAID chips onboard for instance. I don't know about birre's specifc new computer, but there's a good chance it might come with onboard RAID. And certainly it's not expensive to add on a RAID card for yourself. Having it all in one computer instead of a server is a better idea to me, if you want to go the RAID route. Again it saves you from having to network the computers, and saves power consumption as well.
It all depends on what you want and how much you're willing to spend. Birre, if you don't have a lot of CRITICAL data, you might not even want to bother with something like RAID. You know, if you just want more "junk" storage space, just using thath 160GB drive as a second HDD will do what you want. But it's entirely a personal choice, depends on what functionality you want, how much you're willing to spend, how much effort you're willing to put in to setup, etc... etc... I personally use my RAID slots in a JBOD config because i have so many storage hard drives.
P.S.
Birre, a PIII 450??!? WOW! i haven't seen one of those in years! I had a PIII 450 a long time ago myself. One of the first computers i built myself. If you've been stuck on a PIII for that long, you're going to DIE when you see how fast that Core 2 Duo is
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In fact most new computers come with a motherboard that has a built in RAID chip onboard. My personal workstation has 3 RAID chips onboard for instance. I don't know about birre's specifc new computer, but there's a good chance it might come with onboard RAID. And certainly it's not expensive to add on a RAID card for yourself. Having it all in one computer instead of a server is a better idea to me, if you want to go the RAID route. Again it saves you from having to network the computers, and saves power consumption as well.
It all depends on what you want and how much you're willing to spend. Birre, if you don't have a lot of CRITICAL data, you might not even want to bother with something like RAID. You know, if you just want more "junk" storage space, just using thath 160GB drive as a second HDD will do what you want. But it's entirely a personal choice, depends on what functionality you want, how much you're willing to spend, how much effort you're willing to put in to setup, etc... etc... I personally use my RAID slots in a JBOD config because i have so many storage hard drives.
P.S.
Birre, a PIII 450??!? WOW! i haven't seen one of those in years! I had a PIII 450 a long time ago myself. One of the first computers i built myself. If you've been stuck on a PIII for that long, you're going to DIE when you see how fast that Core 2 Duo is
.