Question About Adding 2nd Hard Drive

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rac43

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Can I do this??
Now have an older system with 85Gig IDE drive, Win XP Pro loaded. Getting new system that comes with Win XP Media on a 300G SATA drive. I need to keep my old data so can I put this IDE dirve into the new case as a slave with the new SATA as primary? I want to do this and copy all files/programs to new drive then reformate slave to have a clean drive. Please advise if you can. Thanks
 
well... if your new pc's motherboard still has IDE slots, i dont see a problem :) however,.. make sure you pick the right windows on startup,.. since the new pc will most likely have a completely different chipse, the old windows will pretty sure not work on it :o
 
Archangel said:
well... if your new pc's motherboard still has IDE slots, i dont see a problem :) however,.. make sure you pick the right windows on startup,.. since the new pc will most likely have a completely different chipse, the old windows will pretty sure not work on it :o
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I believe that the SATA drives are automatically used as Master, since Sata doesnt use the master/slave options. Therefore the SATA drive will be fine, and the IDE will be slave (or secondary master however you want to look at it)
 
Thanks guys, this is the best computer forum in the world. Every question I can think of is answered here.:)
 
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