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Old 14-08-2008, 14:39   #1
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Hard Drives

Question for Ian.

If I bought a new computer, could I swap over my present hard drive, or is there some thing in the bios of new computers to prevent this.

Back in the old days before win95, you could swap or add drives no problem. Now I'm not sure

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Old 15-08-2008, 07:30   #2
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Re: Hard Drives

there are a couple of different standards, your disks are probably IDE( from the age of your PC), new ones are SATA. new motherboards may not have an IDE controller built in but you can get add on boards that do, an alternative is to shove it in a USB external HD case and use it that way.

Its not insurmountable and todays disks are so huge etc its easy to just copy teh stuff across and then use the old one as a backup disk via teh above mentioned USB method
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Old 15-08-2008, 14:24   #3
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Re: Hard Drives

Many thanks Ian.
Didn't know about SATA, my thoughts on the subject, were new computers come with Vista, and it was my way of getting away from vista by swapping the hard drives.

Got a new DVD rewriter, the old one was faulty, tried that Ubuntu, but it keep stalling when it comes to part 4 of the partitioning.

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there are a couple of different standards, your disks are probably IDE( from the age of your PC), new ones are SATA. new motherboards may not have an IDE controller built in but you can get add on boards that do, an alternative is to shove it in a USB external HD case and use it that way.

Its not insurmountable and todays disks are so huge etc its easy to just copy teh stuff across and then use the old one as a backup disk via teh above mentioned USB method
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