re-attaching by old hard drive to the new Dell?
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:49 pm
okay, need some opinions on this, please.
i believe that the HD is still good on my old lightning struck HP 80 gig drive. and that drive has some pictures and other things on it that i really need to keep. i haven't done this sorta stuff in a while, but can't i just open up the dell carefully, find one of the extra HD cables and plug her in, so that when i re-plug and turn the Dell on, it will show me with two hard drives, and thus i can copy the stuff from the old drive to the new drive?
or will there be a booting issue since the old hard drive also has XP OS installed???? is there something to change in the Bios?
information greatly appreciated.
Beowolff
i believe that the HD is still good on my old lightning struck HP 80 gig drive. and that drive has some pictures and other things on it that i really need to keep. i haven't done this sorta stuff in a while, but can't i just open up the dell carefully, find one of the extra HD cables and plug her in, so that when i re-plug and turn the Dell on, it will show me with two hard drives, and thus i can copy the stuff from the old drive to the new drive?
or will there be a booting issue since the old hard drive also has XP OS installed???? is there something to change in the Bios?
information greatly appreciated.
Beowolff