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Just Plain Rick - 21 Jul 2007 17:37 GMT

I am thinking about taking a hard drive out of my old XP machine and adding
it to my new Vista Home Premium. Any comments, do's or don'ts would be
appreciated.

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Bruce Chambers - 21 Jul 2007 18:04 GMT

> I am thinking about taking a hard drive out of my old XP machine and
> adding it to my new Vista Home Premium. Any comments, do's or don'ts
> would be appreciated.

    Without knowing anything about either system's hardware components or
your ultimate goal, it's not possible to provide any sort of concise,
definitive answer.

    Is the old hard drive SCSI, SATA, EIDE, etc.? Does the new computer
have the appropriate interface to which you can connect the old hard drive?

    Is your intent only to access/transfer data from the old hard drive, or
are you thinking of creating a dual-boot configuration?

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Just Plain Rick - 21 Jul 2007 22:42 GMT

thks for the comments. Looks like my XP drive is ATA and my Vista system
uses SATA. So I am out of luck.

>> I am thinking about taking a hard drive out of my old XP machine and
>> adding it to my new Vista Home Premium. Any comments, do's or don'ts
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> Is your intent only to access/transfer data from the old hard drive, or
> are you thinking of creating a dual-boot configuration?

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Ken Blake, MVP - 21 Jul 2007 23:06 GMT

> thks for the comments. Looks like my XP drive is ATA and my Vista system
> uses SATA. So I am out of luck.

No, you're not. Your motherboard presumably has ATA support too, and
the two can coexist.

> >> I am thinking about taking a hard drive out of my old XP machine and
> >> adding it to my new Vista Home Premium. Any comments, do's or don'ts
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> > Is your intent only to access/transfer data from the old hard drive, or
> > are you thinking of creating a dual-boot configuration?

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Just Plain Rick - 27 Jul 2007 16:39 GMT

Thks, I did find the connections on my motherboard to connect the parallel
hard drive. Seems to be working okay.

Thanks again.

>> thks for the comments. Looks like my XP drive is ATA and my Vista system
>> uses SATA. So I am out of luck.
[quoted text clipped - 17 lines]
>> > Is your intent only to access/transfer data from the old hard drive, or
>> > are you thinking of creating a dual-boot configuration?

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