Can I move slave drive to different computer

[DingusQ]

I'm getting ready to retire my Windows 98 computer. I added a 40 GB drive to this machine about 3 years ago, It's only 1/3 full. I was wondering if I can just pull it out and put it into my Win XP machine, also as a slave ddrive. Will the data be available on the new computer, or do I need to re-format and repartition the drive?

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[vacunita]

You should be able to just stick it in the WinXp mahcine as a slave, and XP should pick it up no problem. However it always recommended to backup important info before doing it.

Still XP should have no problems seeing the drive and the data within it.




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[G0AOZ]

Be aware you may need to reconfigure the jumpering on the XP drive if this WIN98 disk is to be attached to the same data cable. Sometimes the main drive needs to be jumpered as Master, rather than being a single drive...

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[cdogg]

Also something you might not be aware of...

The drive that is set to Master should be attached to the "end" connector on the IDE cable. The one set to Slave should be using the "middle" connector.

And like G0AOZ said, don't assume that the drive already in the XP PC is set to master. It might be using "cable select". Make sure you change it to master if needed...

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[wolluf]

also - if Norton goback installed on 98 machine, uninstall it before moving drive.

And if overlay software installed - best networking old machine to new and copying data across.

If neither of these apply, just move it - noting advice above.

 

[Frank4d]

If the slave drive is just data, then ok. If it has programs installed that run from that drive you will need to re-install them.