jesperaudi
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A friend asked me to rescue photos etc from a very old Dell computer, running winxp, and it has a Seagate Barracuda ATA iv 80gb drive. Everything would load on this pc but it was incredibly slow, probably low ram.
I managed to put this in as a slave drive on one of my old Mesh computers (1gbRAM, WinXP iii, has a Maxtor ATA 120gb 3.5 series) so I know I can transfer all the info but I came up with the idea of putting the Barracuda into the Mesh as a single drive and just giving her a new (but oldish pc) and she could carry one with all the accounts set up.
Unfortunately, when putting the Barracuda into my Mesh as a Single Drive, Windows XP doesn't load. Is this because it is a Mesh and the original was a Dell? I don't know what I am talking about but is it a bios issue?
Any ideas anyone. I am pretending to know something about about computers but I have already invested many hours in this issue.
Thanks Jesper
I managed to put this in as a slave drive on one of my old Mesh computers (1gbRAM, WinXP iii, has a Maxtor ATA 120gb 3.5 series) so I know I can transfer all the info but I came up with the idea of putting the Barracuda into the Mesh as a single drive and just giving her a new (but oldish pc) and she could carry one with all the accounts set up.
Unfortunately, when putting the Barracuda into my Mesh as a Single Drive, Windows XP doesn't load. Is this because it is a Mesh and the original was a Dell? I don't know what I am talking about but is it a bios issue?
Any ideas anyone. I am pretending to know something about about computers but I have already invested many hours in this issue.
Thanks Jesper