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Answer» I need a little advice on whether I can add another Hard drive to my existing IDE 1 Port. Will the XP OS Automatically transfer to the New one? You cannot MOVE a hard drive with XP installed on it from one machine to another and expect it to function...
If you are trying to do something else i didn't understand, please clarify.Hi,
Thank you for the reply. I have a dell dimension with a pentium 4, 1.7 ghz processor and the HD is only 10 or so gigs and I recently bought a 120 gig Drive I'd like to install. I just would like to know if the OS on the master drive will incorporate itself to the new one if used as a SLAVE?
Thanx, JeffYou can install the second hard drive as a data drive. That's about it. Windows doesn't copy itself to new hard drives.
However, you can make the new hdd the master and install windows onto it and have a dual boot system. Or you can use the old drive as the data drive.There is another option....
You can use the disk manuf. utilities to "clone" the old drive to the new drive.
This will result in abootable drive that is an exact replica of your old drive as it is now.....except for more space.
This approach makes the most amount of sense in your situation as you won't have to bother re-installing everything and getting things situated as you like them...
You basically install the new drive as a slave then boot with the drive manuf. CD and prepare the new drive and then do the clone operation.
When you are finished you remove your old drive completely...hook up the new one as master on IDE1 and re-boot and you are good to go.
You can then format the old drive...hook it up as a slave and use it gfor extra storage.
p.s. If you did not recieve a CD with the HDD just travel to the manuf. site and DLoad their disk utilities.When u add another hard drive, this second harddrive mus be set as slave. Your 1st harddrive where winxp is installed is the primary drive. Installing another harddrive will not automatically transfer your os to the new drive. If ur new drive or the 2nd harddrive has an operating system installed in it, your pc will still boot on the 1st drive or the primary drive. You and michaewlewis should both read Patio's advice up there. Quote from: patio on May 15, 2007, 09:44:01 PM You cannot move a hard drive with XP installed on it from one machine to another and expect it to function...
If you are trying to do something else i didn't understand, please clarify.
What of course you can..The point is, you MIGHT get lucky, but you shouldn't expect it to work.
What about the activation? Is that copy licensed to another machine? You may get another surprise in 30 days.Quote from: tinfed2 on May 18, 2007, 03:06:09 AMQuote from: patio on May 15, 2007, 09:44:01 PMYou cannot move a hard drive with XP installed on it from one machine to another and expect it to function...
If you are trying to do something else i didn't understand, please clarify.
What of course you can..
How many machines have you done this on and gotten the drive to boot up ? ?You can sometimes achieve success by, before transferring the disk, GOING into Device MANAGER and DELETING everything, and then in the new machine Windows (laboriously) finds all the "new" hardware... Needless to say, this is best done with one of those versions of Windows that (ahem) doesn't need activation. Agreed. But most are just swapping them around blindly from machine to machine hoping something works...
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