raven i am doing exactly what ur saying :)
ditto
and i fig the jumper part...
i am curious .. the molex connector frm my old
hdd dosent come out .. i dont remember if it was always this way or if it ever came out ...
were there hdd's with fixed molex connectors...
coz earlier the...
ok here's wats happening
in the bios
IDE-Primary master : st3160021a
IDE Primary slave : none
then it lists my cd rom as secondary master
and secondary slave as none
the old hdd is attached to the cable going from the new hdd to the motherboard...
now in the bios in the sub menu...
thanks for your answer
i should have mentioned i have XP sp1
you article was insightful
now i have to fig out how to do this
coz i have 120 gb of vakuable data
cant afford to miss that ....
this is tuff :P
hey guys another question..
i am moving to another city
and instead of dragging my pc along
and bummin it up in the train
i just wanna take my hdd along
go to the new city buy a new pc
and fit the old hdd right in ...
can i do this ?
or wld it be a problem ?
i mean in terms of...
hey man
i did get the jumper out
but when i connect the hdd
it dosent show up in my computer
(this hdd has my win98se installed on it )
when i start the pc
it kick in my nvidia boot agent
(this is the first time i saw that thing)
and it cant boot in and then tells me to insert cd
to...
hey raven
i didn get data tsfrd from one of the drives
without any problems watsoever...
however the other old hdd from which i want to tsfr data was the master on the old PC
which means i need to make it the slave when i connect it to my new pc.... but i am just not able to change the...
thanks for the reply
"remove the cd drive, make your old hdd slave by changing the jumper to SL mode, connect it to the IDE cable, connect the power cable. "
this part i didn;t understand
i am a hardware zero ..
could you elaborate pls :)
btw my old system has two old hdd's
one...
hey y;all
guys i have a question
i have this old 1998 model PC which has a lotta my data
which i want to transfer to my new pc
is there a way in which i can
connect the hdd of the old pc
to the new pc ?
meaning maybe i can take out the cd rom frm the new pc
and fit the old hdd to...
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