xp and hard drives

[S]

I am transferring to another tower,
tower1 has xp on its C drive.
tower 2 has xp on its C drive.
Can I piggy back the drive from tower 1 to tower 2 and then delete xp from
no 1 C drive after the transfer so that I can then use it (no 1) for
storage.
Will this have any effect on C drive no 2?

Hope this makes sense.

 

[Ken Blake]

I am transferring to another tower,
tower1 has xp on its C drive.
tower 2 has xp on its C drive.
Can I piggy back the drive from tower 1 to tower 2 and then delete xp from
no 1 C drive after the transfer so that I can then use it (no 1) for
storage.
Yes.


Will this have any effect on C drive no 2?

No.

 

[Big_Al]

I am transferring to another tower,
tower1 has xp on its C drive.
tower 2 has xp on its C drive.
Can I piggy back the drive from tower 1 to tower 2 and then delete xp from
no 1 C drive after the transfer so that I can then use it (no 1) for
storage.
Will this have any effect on C drive no 2?

Hope this makes sense.

Just to clarify because you call everything C: drive.
Whichever OS you want to run, leave it as the C: drive in the
destination machine. It will make life so much better. Trying to move
an OS from C: to D: is, well, if not impossible, its not worth your
time. So leave it as C:. Change the CD Rom to E: too.
Then just install the 2nd drive as slave D: drive. Sure it has an OS
on it, but I'd just copy off the good stuff and format it.

 

[S]

Just to clarify because you call everything C: drive.
Whichever OS you want to run, leave it as the C: drive in the destination
machine. It will make life so much better. Trying to move an OS from C:
to D: is, well, if not impossible, its not worth your time. So leave it
as C:. Change the CD Rom to E: too.
Then just install the 2nd drive as slave D: drive. Sure it has an OS on
it, but I'd just copy off the good stuff and format it.

Ok I think I understand what I am doing.

Another question...when I install the 2 nd drive do I need 2 of those ribbon
connections?
ie one to each drive or does the 2nd (slave) just require the power
connection and changing of the jumpers.

 

[Big_Al]

Ok I think I understand what I am doing.

Another question...when I install the 2 nd drive do I need 2 of those ribbon
connections?
ie one to each drive or does the 2nd (slave) just require the power
connection and changing of the jumpers.

Each Drive (HDs or CDs) requires a ribbon connector and power. The
ribbon cable is how the data gets from the drive to the computer. Some
cables come with two connectors per ribbon. If you hook up with one
cable then you are using the same controller on the motherboard and one
drive is master and one is slave.
If you use two ribbon cables (whether they have one or two connectors)
then you are using two controllers on the motherboard thus each first
drive is master on each cable. If you hook up any two devices on one
cable, one is always master and one is slave. I think doing
master/slave is more straight forward to the average user.

 

[S]

Each Drive (HDs or CDs) requires a ribbon connector and power. The ribbon
cable is how the data gets from the drive to the computer. Some cables
come with two connectors per ribbon. If you hook up with one cable then
you are using the same controller on the motherboard and one drive is
master and one is slave.
If you use two ribbon cables (whether they have one or two connectors)
then you are using two controllers on the motherboard thus each first
drive is master on each cable. If you hook up any two devices on one
cable, one is always master and one is slave. I think doing master/slave
is more straight forward to the average user.

OK thanks
S