Moving my hard drive to newer PC

[Guest cam35pilot]

Hi,

Can anyone give me an idea on what I need to "watch out for" when

I take the 20GB hard drive from my Pentium 3PC and add it as a "slave"

to my 1st generation IBM P-4 PC? I have all of my website and email

mailboxes on the P3 computer, and I want to just move that to the

newer (still only a 1.4 GHz P4) PC so that I can get some room on my

work-station.

They are both Windows XP Pro machines, so I think it will be

fairly easy. Am I wrong there?

 

Rich

[Guest Colin Barnhorst]

Re: Moving my hard drive to newer PC

 

It should just show up as a data drive. How are you mounting it, internal

or external?

 

"cam35pilot" <cam35pilot@aol.com> wrote in message

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> Hi,

> Can anyone give me an idea on what I need to "watch out for" when

> I take the 20GB hard drive from my Pentium 3PC and add it as a "slave"

> to my 1st generation IBM P-4 PC? I have all of my website and email

> mailboxes on the P3 computer, and I want to just move that to the

> newer (still only a 1.4 GHz P4) PC so that I can get some room on my

> work-station.

> They are both Windows XP Pro machines, so I think it will be

> fairly easy. Am I wrong there?

>

> Rich

[Guest LVTravel]

Re: Moving my hard drive to newer PC

 

What mail program are you using on the P3 machine? Do a search to find out

how to backup and restore the various files/folders for your email system.

If you expect to see the mailboxes on the same drive when you move it to the

P4 machine they won't be accessible unless you move them properly.

 

Good luck.

 

 

"cam35pilot" <cam35pilot@aol.com> wrote in message

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> Hi,

> Can anyone give me an idea on what I need to "watch out for" when

> I take the 20GB hard drive from my Pentium 3PC and add it as a "slave"

> to my 1st generation IBM P-4 PC? I have all of my website and email

> mailboxes on the P3 computer, and I want to just move that to the

> newer (still only a 1.4 GHz P4) PC so that I can get some room on my

> work-station.

> They are both Windows XP Pro machines, so I think it will be

> fairly easy. Am I wrong there?

>

> Rich

[Guest Xandros]

Re: Moving my hard drive to newer PC

 

Set the jumper on the 20 GB drive to the slave position. See the drive

manufacturer's site if need be but most drives have a legend on the drive's

label. Depending on the type and make of the drive in the P4 system you may

have to set the jumper on that drive to Master/with slave if there is such a

setting. I think Western Digital drives require you to change the jumper

from Master/single to Master/with slave. Most other IDE drives can simply be

set as Master.

 

--

 

Xandros

 

 

"cam35pilot" <cam35pilot@aol.com> wrote in message

news:669ef5c0-e8b1-461b-8335-da9977a5a026@k2g2000hse.googlegroups.com...

> Hi,

> Can anyone give me an idea on what I need to "watch out for" when

> I take the 20GB hard drive from my Pentium 3PC and add it as a "slave"

> to my 1st generation IBM P-4 PC? I have all of my website and email

> mailboxes on the P3 computer, and I want to just move that to the

> newer (still only a 1.4 GHz P4) PC so that I can get some room on my

> work-station.

> They are both Windows XP Pro machines, so I think it will be

> fairly easy. Am I wrong there?

>

> Rich

[Guest cam35pilot]

Re: Moving my hard drive to newer PC

 

Thank you all. I am using AOL 9.0 on the current P3 machine. I don't

have AOL installed on the P4 one. Do I have to move the program and

it's associated folders (with old emails that I need to keep) to "C"

or can I just have the AOL desktop icon to point to "D" and have it

work as it does now?

 

Rich

[Guest cam35pilot]

Re: Moving my hard drive to newer PC

 

Oh, I was just thinking... the two things I need to access are my

website files on Dreamweaver and AOL mailboxes. Should I just copy the

folders in "program files" onto an external USB drive then move them

to what will be the "new" C drive on the P4 machine?

 

Rich

[Guest LVTravel]

Re: Moving my hard drive to newer PC

 

If you don't install the AOL program on the P4 machine you won't have an

operating email program because the AOL program installs things into the

registry of the operating system. Simply copying the files and folders

won't install these registry entries. To make the email folders available

to the AOL program will require some research on your part as this is not

related to XP, but a different application program. Contact AOL for their

assistance in moving the emails.

 

Can't say the same about Dreamweaver since I don't know much about that

program but I suspect the same thing, that the program will have to be

installed instead of simply copying the program's files.

 

Data files can be copied without issue but program files need to be

installed.

 

 

"cam35pilot" <cam35pilot@aol.com> wrote in message

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> Oh, I was just thinking... the two things I need to access are my

> website files on Dreamweaver and AOL mailboxes. Should I just copy the

> folders in "program files" onto an external USB drive then move them

> to what will be the "new" C drive on the P4 machine?

>

> Rich