adding internal drive

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I have an internal hard drive from another pc that has win xp installed on
it. Can I add that drive to another pc without formating the drive? I want
to keep the files that are on that drive, and use it for more space.
 
Yup. On IDE internal drives be aware of the slave/master jumper thing. And
look up "Disk Management" in Windows XP's "Help and Support" for more
information on harddrives.
 
Infosink said:
Yup. On IDE internal drives be aware of the slave/master jumper
thing. And look up "Disk Management" in Windows XP's "Help and
Support" for more information on harddrives.
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Steve should first make sure that the computer he's adding it to is running
Windows XP or that the drive is not NTFS. If the computer is running Windows
98 or Me, it won't be able to see an NTFS drive, if that's what it happens
ro be.
 
Ken Blake said:
Steve should first make sure that the computer he's adding it to is running
Windows XP or that the drive is not NTFS. If the computer is running Windows
98 or Me, it won't be able to see an NTFS drive, if that's what it happens
ro be.
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He's posted in the XP newsgroup, so it's a pretty safe assumption that
he wants to add it to an XP machine.
 
Tim said:
He's posted in the XP newsgroup, so it's a pretty safe assumption that
he wants to add it to an XP machine.
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Well, since he posted it in an XP newsgroup, it's a pretty safe assumption
that at least one of the two machines (the from and the two) is XP, but not
necessaily both. And although I agree that you are very likely right, it
can't hurt the OP to check to be sure.
 
Both machines are xp. However, one was home edition and the new machine is
media edition. Does this make a difference? Also, the new machine has a
sata drive, the other drive is an ata, can I still add the ata drive into
this machine and set it up as a slave?
 
steve said:
Both machines are xp. However, one was home edition and the new
machine is media edition. Does this make a difference?

No.


Also, the
new machine has a sata drive, the other drive is an ata, can I still
add the ata drive into this machine

Yes.


and set it up as a slave?
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No, make it a master (or "only" drive, if that's a choice). It isn't a slave
unless there is another ATA drive set as master on the same channel.
 
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