moving second drive

[bill]

I've got a second WD250 on a promise controller card on one win2k NTFS
machine. I'm building a new computer and want to move this drive
over.

I'm booting off another drive and have loaded the same win2k os.
The IDE controller is now a VIA chipset (although I have questions as
to whether it is somehow more promise technology

Does the NTFS/win2k allow you to simply move the secondary data drive
to the new machine ?

 

[dg]

Secondary drive? No problem! It is formatted as a BASIC disk right? Not a
dynamic disk? I have no experience with swapping a dynamic disk, so all
bets are off if that is the case.

--Dan

 

[bill]

Yep, it's a simple, single, Win2k, NTFS drive off a Promise
controller card. I recall something about NTFS stores drive data on
the drive rather than in the registry or something similar, so it
sounded very portable.