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August 30th, 2007
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| Educated Idiot Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Indiana
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|  Install of an old hard drive Question......... I wanted to know if I can install my old hard drive, which has windows home edition on it, in place of my current main hard drive which has xp pro...so I can retrive my pictures and and songs and place them on my storage drive I have installed and then switch them back....without harming my computer or needing to do a bunch of changes and stuff to anything. My old hard drive is bad...loud clicking sound...but contains stuff I want to keep. Wanted to swap it out for a minute or two to retrive stuff. Both are sata. Is this as simple as I would hope it is?  Antec 900 Q6600, GO stepping, 3.21 MHz P5w DH Deluxe Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro 512mb 2 Gb OCZ platinum revision 2 DDR2 6400 800hz OC to 892mhz Lapped Zalman 9700 nt 150gb raptor 320gb seagate PC Power & Cooling 750w PSU (2) lite-on 20x dvd burners 22 inch HP w2207 monitor. :ridinghorse: |
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August 30th, 2007
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| ako the pinoy  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: by the beach
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| Re: Install of an old hard drive use external usb enclosure... its a lot safer.... or put them in you main board then tweak the bios in other that it would boot in XPpro... thats how would i approach it... Abit IP35-E C2D E6750 G0 @ 2.66ghz [TR Ultra120EX] EVAG 8800GTS [TR HR03] Corsair [2gbDual@800] 820GB HDD[120/200/500] Antec TP 550W Silverstone Temjin 09 Saitek Eclipse1 & Razer DeathAdder Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit |
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August 30th, 2007
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| Educated Idiot Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Indiana
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| Re: Install of an old hard drive Ok, so don't remove my current harddrive....just insert the old one and make sure it boots from my current C drive first. Even though I have 2 different harddrives with 2 different OS's...it will be fine as long as it boots from my c drive...correct? Antec 900 Q6600, GO stepping, 3.21 MHz P5w DH Deluxe Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro 512mb 2 Gb OCZ platinum revision 2 DDR2 6400 800hz OC to 892mhz Lapped Zalman 9700 nt 150gb raptor 320gb seagate PC Power & Cooling 750w PSU (2) lite-on 20x dvd burners 22 inch HP w2207 monitor. :ridinghorse: |
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August 30th, 2007
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| ako the pinoy Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: by the beach
Posts: 1,694
| Re: Install of an old hard drive  yes... Abit IP35-E C2D E6750 G0 @ 2.66ghz [TR Ultra120EX] EVAG 8800GTS [TR HR03] Corsair [2gbDual@800] 820GB HDD[120/200/500] Antec TP 550W Silverstone Temjin 09 Saitek Eclipse1 & Razer DeathAdder Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit |
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August 30th, 2007
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| Educated Idiot Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Indiana
Posts: 222
| Re: Install of an old hard drive thanks guys Antec 900 Q6600, GO stepping, 3.21 MHz P5w DH Deluxe Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro 512mb 2 Gb OCZ platinum revision 2 DDR2 6400 800hz OC to 892mhz Lapped Zalman 9700 nt 150gb raptor 320gb seagate PC Power & Cooling 750w PSU (2) lite-on 20x dvd burners 22 inch HP w2207 monitor. :ridinghorse: |
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