Adding a my old HD to my newer PC

[kbaasit]

I have a newer PC: PIII - 800 w/ a 10GB HD Win2k OS. I want to move my HD (3.2GB) from the PC I have been using for the past 2 years. It has all my s/ware on it MS Outlook / Word / AutoCAD etc. What is the most effective way to start using this larger HD, how can I start using Outlook (2000) which I have also installed on the newer PC (such as having my calender / contacts / exist. mail inbox/sent intems etc... being read from this HD instead of the 3.2 GB.

I was thinking of adding the 3.2GB as a slave, (after I figure out how to do that!)

regards

[Yuanji]

im probably not the best person to ask but i think i have the idea pretty much. there are little black tubish things on top of pins on the end of your HD. these jumpers select what mode the HD is in. If you wanna set it to slave, find a manual for a HD like yours and it will tell you what settings you should set your jumpers to so that the HD can act as a slave.

[ZeratulsAvenger]

Umm... I don't know if you can use the programs from the old Hardrive unless you can ghost the drive and put it on the larger/faster drive. If you do that though you may be stick with the 3.2GB partition and then a 6.8GB partition... not sure if you can expand a ghost image over the whole harddrive. WIthout ghosting I think the only way to use the pragrams is reinstalling, since registry entries are missing for the programs and various files probably as well.

Too add the drive as slave you just configure the jumpers on the end of the drive where you would plug in an IDE cable to Master for your main drive and then Slave for the other HD. It should list the different options on top of the drive cover, but if not you can look it up on the internet.

[ROYP123]

Since you have Outlook on both computers, export the data for address book, etc by going to file> export . you can save it to a disk, and then import it to the larger HDD. You can save all your Outlook info that way. If you want to use the other programs on the new HDD, you must install them from the install disks, since installation of programs puts files in a lot of different places. After that, you can transfer your data to Word, etc that is on the new HDD. If you don't want to do that, you can clone the small HDD to the new HDD , but it will be an exact copy of the small HDD, just on a larger drive.
HTH