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10-21-2003, 09:49 PM
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Old Hard Drives New Computer
Took some old hard drives out of my old 386 Computer after stripping it down for parts.
I'm in the middle of a new build and was considering installing the old hard drives in the new build so I could transfer all the files from the old hard drive into the new Hard drive, then remove the old hard drive My question is.... If the old hard drive is already given a letter ie: C:\ how will the system read it if there is already a C:\ drive(new hard drive)? Will it know the difference? Will it assign it a new drive letter? Will it ignore it all together? I hope thats enough info thanks for the help |
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10-21-2003, 10:23 PM
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it will be given all new drive letters from the new system.
the drive letters are not assigned to the drive untill the system boot up and check to see what hard ware it there. |
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10-22-2003, 03:13 PM
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Hmmm...what about the existing directory structure? If there is already a existing c:\ hard drive and I put in a old hard drive set up with a c:\ directory with files in it will there be a conflict?
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10-22-2003, 03:34 PM
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No, it will become a d:\ or e:\ (or whatever) directory structure.
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10-24-2003, 10:56 PM
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Do you need to set the old drive as a slave drive on the same IDE cable or can you use the second IDE channel?
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10-25-2003, 01:22 AM
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Doesn't matter, it can be anything but primary master. Files will copy faster if it is on another channel.
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10-26-2003, 09:10 AM
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What about differing file systems now using XP home (NTFS) old drive was FAT32 (Win98 SE)
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10-26-2003, 10:07 AM
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ntfs can read the fat32 files, but fat 32 files cannot read the ntfs files, I think I said that right
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10-26-2003, 11:18 AM
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XP can read both, no problem. It's the active OS that determines what can be read.
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10-26-2003, 11:22 AM
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ok, then its w98 that can't read ntfs
PS/ with this kind of help, passing the A+ will be a cench Last edited by bailey; 10-26-2003 at 11:24 AM. |
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10-28-2003, 01:20 PM
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I once changed drives. I used a program I downloaded from the maxtor website called powermax to transfer the info from one drive to another. The directions on their website also helped. The program and directions were very straight forward.
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