swapping hard drives problem

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Jacknife

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I had a broken computer, I wanted some of the files from the hard drive, so I swapped hard drives with an old computer I had lying around. Pretty sure I did everything correctly. When I turned on the computer, windows started and loaded properly, but everything was the same as before. The hard drive I put in there was Windows XP and the computer I put it in previously had Windows 98. Does that matter? Can someone help me figure out what I did wrong. Please bare with me, my computer tech knowledge is pretty limited.
 
You need to take the XP drive and set the jumpers to slave and plug it into the middle connector of the HD cable.
The 98 drive should have the jumpers set to master.
You need both drives hooked up.
XP will not run in the older comp as a solo drive, it was loaded on the newer comp.
 
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I seem to be getting the same result. I set the jumper position to "drive is a slave" on the XP hard drive. Plugged the old HD back in, plugged the windows XP HD into the slave ribbon cable plug, and plugged in P7 into the XP HD to power it. Is this correct? Does the fact that the computer I am using is really old (1998) make any difference?
 
Did you try getting into BIOS setup to check if your XP HDD is detected?

Old computers usually have a problem detecting larger capacity HDDs.

Also, granting all is fine, you also couldn't read your XP HDD from Windows 98 if the partition in it is NTFS.
 
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