If your motherboard on the newer system currently supports four drives, then 
you should be able to connect your two drives to the second connector.  (I 
assume that you would have the main drive and cd on the first ribbon and the 
160 and its slave on the second ribbon.)  Very easy.

However, if you want to use the 160 as the main drive on the newer computer, 
then you may have some problems.  First of all, your license for XP may not 
be valid on the newer computer.  Secondly, motherboard drivers (and maybe 
others) that are on your older computer may have to be replaced with the 
appropriate ones on the newer computer.

Since you were able to replace your main drive on the older computer, it 
sounds like you have the technical skills and software to do what you want 
on the new computer.  Licenses and drivers should be the only issues.  It 
all depends on how you want the newer computer configured.  Adding drives is 
no problem if there is a spare connector, but replacing the boot drive may 
be problematical.

Dean Kukral


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Radu" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 11:52 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Moving new hard drive from one machine to another


I currently have a P3 733Mhz running XP pro and have recently installed a 
new 160GB hard drive. I am using the old 80GB drive as a slave. I was given 
a newer tower with a P4 1.3Mhz but wath very little disc space. I want to 
take the drive out of the old box and move them into the new one but not 
sure if I can do this. Do I have to tweak the bois at all?
Please let me know.
Richard Radu

 

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