Im kinda new at the WHOLE.. Computer Parts in different computers thing.

But recently.. i've been itching to put a computer together of my 2 old ones. So i decided to, but unforutonatly i gave away one of the comps hard drives and am stuck with a 8 gig compaq HDD running windows 95.

I'm trying to put it into a Emachines Motherboard, EVERYTHING starts up ok. put a new power supply, and some ram in.

It gets to the log in menu, i can log in. But then a Fatal Error and says
" Hard Drive designed for compaq computer use only drive will now be disabled" :-? :-? :-? or somthing very simular to that.. only have one monitor with me so i can't be on two at once.

By any CHANCE is there anyway to disable that warning or change the settings of the hard drive on the Compaq Motherboard i have?

or is my dream hopeless :-?So the hard drive has Windows loaded from a different hardware setup than you are using? THat seldom works out well, but if you format the drive and reload WIndows it should work fine. I can't think of a reason why ANY hard drive shouldn't work if it has a fresh load of the OPERATING system.Well i ended up putting it BACK into the old motherboard, just added some stuff onto that.
So it ended up working in some way..