Making an internal drive into external USB drive

[TacoLover]

Hello all,

Wondering if someone can help: I have an internal hard drive from an older computer (Win98) that I'd like to take and put into an external USB enlclosure to hook up to my WinXP machine for extra storage. I pretty much understand how to hook it up to a enclosure kit, but here's what I want to know. The old hard drive was the startup disk (master) for the Win98 comp... to make it readable on the WinXP comp is it as simple as moving the switches to slave so that it doesn't confuse the two? I don't want to reformat the older drive because I still have files on it that I want to keep. Not sure what to do.

Plus, can anyone recomend a cheap but good external case for it?

Thanks.

 

[paparazi]

TacoLover
Leave set as master, it is going to be on the USB bus so won't take presidence over the main drive in the PC (your first bootable device will be the main drive on IDE 0)
Just screw it in the enclosure and connect (XP needs to have SP1 installed)
You should be able to access the drive once detected.
Martin


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