New System - Adding Old XP HD As Slave
Jan 9, 2009
First of all, I built my new PC a couple of days back installed vista ultimate 64 which is all good. The new HD is attached to the mother board via a SATA connection. I removed my old XP drive from the old PC and installed it to the new system also however as its quite old I have had to use the IDE connection on the mother board and set the jumpers to slave. I want to be able to access all my old music, photos etc.
Now Vista picks up the old XP drive through “computer” but when I try to access it, it sates I need to reformat the drive which of course I totally want to avoid!
I made sure the (ribbon type) IDE cable is using the correct (grey) slave connection and also made sure the jumper is set to slave. Apparently there is no need to set anything else to master as I’m using SATA connections. The old drive was also previously operational prior to the new build so I know there are no issues there.
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I have bought a new system with Vista Home Premium and I am trying to install an IDE hard drive as a slave. These are from my old system and I just want them installed so I can copy across stuff.
I have done this in XP with no problem but I cannot seem to get this system to see them.
If they do not show up in Bios does this mean Vista wont see them? I have tried varies jumper settings but my Bios just wont see either of my drives.
My new system has a Sata HD installed so I am just connecting my slave IDE HD to the empty IDE connector on the Mobo.
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I have a HD form old computer and want to add install it in the new computer with vista. BIOS recognizes the slave drive but vista keeps checking as a continuously before starting up. I tried to add slave drive after bootup. The vista again recognizes the drive and installed the drivers for it. After that it didn't let me access the harddrive.
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