I wish to physically move a 40Gig hard drive from a Pentium II, 233, Windows 95 PC to a new Athalon PC running windows XP. My objective is to preserve intact all the existing data on this drive and to be able to access it with the Widows XP operating system. Will merely moving the drive to its "new home" with appropriate power and data cabling enable me to realize my objective?
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In posing my question initially I failed to mention that the drive I propose to move is currently a "D" drive (i.e. configured as "slave"
in the old computer. The windows 95 operating system is installed on the original "C" drive in that computer.
in the old computer. The windows 95 operating system is installed on the original "C" drive in that computer.-
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Yes plug in as primary slave, make a folder on your other XP drive, Call it "stuff form other drive" open windows explorer copy over everything you want to keep to the folder on your XP machine, once done you can then format the drive (the one you moved) as NTFS, then cut and paste the folder back to the virgin clean drive. Martin Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.
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