old harddrive, new computer?

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superfly80

currently have a p4 computer with 40 gig hard drive. I would like to
install my old quantum 6.4 gig drive, with i took out of my old
unusable system. My old drive contains winxp and I set it up as a
master and slave with my new hard drive but my computer will not
recognize it. Is there anyway I can get this installed?
 
G

gezerglide

Go into your bios and make sure it is being recognized correctly. If so you
should be able to see it in windows assuming the drive hasn't gone bad.
 
C

Chip Cosgrove \(MSFT\)

Your description is a tad confusing.
Can you be more specific as to how you have configured your old drive in
your new computer?
Your old instalation of Windows-XP is driver-specific for your old system
and therefore couldn't be used to boot your new computer unless you did a
repair-installation. If you are trying to get data off the old disk or just
generally need the old disk in the new system, I would highly recommend
setting the disk up as a slave to your 40G disk.

Chip
 

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