Hello,   some of the things that i am aware of are

                1.  will the older system  see the partitions of the larger
hard drive
                2.   if windows does boots on the old pc  it will try to add
hardware

           What I would ask is  what program do you use to access the data
you need on the larger hardrive.....   If you can install that software on
the older system   what   I would do is add the larger harddrive as a second
drive on the pc and then you would not have to worry about windows being
changed

----- Original Message -----
From: Maurice Reid <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 12:44 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Moving hard drive from one PC/OS to a different PC/OS


> I had to ship my 850MHz AMD Athlon to vendor for warranty repairs and
pulled my 40gb HD (to protect valuable and confidential business data) and
not relevant to the repairs, before sending. I also have an old 100MHz
Pentium with WIN95 OS, which I maintain for old files storage and for the
grand kids to play small games on. Since I need to maintain processing
business information on a current basis while awating return of my repaired
machine, I need to know, before doing so, if I can temporarily replace my
old small hard drive with the HD from my AMD (a WIN98 OS) without any kind
of negative consequences. I am a little concerned, especially with the
marked difference in BIOS. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated
and will contribute to reducing my stress level.
>
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