Dell hd transplant

[anderson3]

I have recently acquired a dead Dell Dimension 8200. I tried to hook the hard drive up in my rig to see what all they had on it and was considering putting it in an old Hp I had laying around. I wanted to use it to run the os that is already on it "xp, wich is an upgrade from the 2000pro that is currently installed in the hp and not to mention the drive being over twice the size"

Once pluged into my tower (the one listed below) and jumppered to cable select, all my comp wants to do is format. No size no nothing, just wants to format.

Also, since the dell is dead, I was unable to start it up to disable all the chipset drivers being used so I dont think it will boot in the hp as is. If/when I can read the drive, can I do this without booting from the drive? Do I have to be in windows to uninstall the drivers?
Any thoughts that I cant view the contents of the drive b/c of the 32bit os that is on it?
Could that make a differance?

[anderson3]

Oh yea, all drives in my comp are sata, and the dell drive is ide. It's a Maxtor D740x-6L 80gig

[glc]

You cannot use the Dell-supplied install of XP in a HP computer. The drive needs to be wiped to use it as a data drive due to the Dell diagnostic partition. The best way to reuse that drive is with a USB adapter as an external backup device.

[anderson3]

Dang, I was afrais it was a dell thing keeping me from reading the data. Thanks

[glc]

That's not what is keeping you from reading the data - the drive is probably corrupted, failing, or already wiped.