Mixing xp slave drive with Vista master drive

[vidkid]

I have a xp home (was slave on old, no longer functioning computer)Have a new Vista computer with a slot for a slave. Can I just make sure the jumpers are set to slave on the xp drive, hook it up, and recover the data?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards,
Vidkid

 

[xit]

Should not be a problem if you set your jumpers correctly and position your drives correctly on you cable. I assume they are both IDE or SATA drives, in any event if they are not just hook them to thier respective cables and they should work

xit

 

[vidkid]

Thanks. So there will be no conflict with the xp configured slave with the master vista configed drive? Sound good to me if that is the case. Now if the drives were reversed where the os is the slave and the master disk has the xp config?
Regards,

Vidkid

 

[wolluf]

If you make xp disk master, system will try to boot from it, and almost certainly fail - as it came from another machine, different drivers - with a blue screen. This assumes your bios disk boot order would be changed by changing relative position of drives (most would, but some would recognise the actual drives and still try to boot from the vista drive). If you wanted to run XP from the old disk, you will need to run a repair reinstall (with the Vista drive disconnected) and then re-activate, then possibly find and install missing drivers.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341.

After this you would need some sort of boot manager (eg,

http://www.boot-us.com)

if you wanted dual boot - or change in bios.

 

[vacunita]

If you reverse the drives, the old drive with XP will try to boot, and fail catastrophically, since the drivers it has will not match the new hardware amongst other things. Still this won't damage your system, or the other drive, but will just unable you to get a booting machine until your switch the drives back.

Make sure its set as slave, so it doesn't try to boot from it.

Other than that, you should not have any problems

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[vidkid]

Thanks again, you guys are great!
Regards,
vidkid