A question about adding a harddrive to a new computer.

[Munku]

So I have a bunch of files from my old hard drive and I would like to copy them to my new system. Would it be possible after installing windows etc on the new one, to load the old HDD up as a slave drive to copy files off of? It will still have Windows installed so I dont know if it will work or not. Thanks! 🙂

 

[Bozono]

Yeah, it'll work. Just be sure they're both alike file systems(NTFS or FAT).

 

[alimoalem]

i don't see why it shouldn't. i'm pretty sure it's a simple drag and paste operation

 

[Slowlearner]

Yep works like a charm - XP on NTFS reads FAT files fine

 

[FeuerFrei]

Originally posted by: Munku
So I have a bunch of files from my old hard drive and I would like to copy them to my new system. Would it be possible after installing windows etc on the new one, to load the old HDD up as a slave drive to copy files off of? It will still have Windows installed so I dont know if it will work or not. Thanks! 🙂

Yeah, XP will read them ok. Don't worry.
I have two FAT32 HDs with old Windows 98 installations on them. I boot off a NTFS SATA drive w/ XP installed.

 

[BOLt]

Originally posted by: Munku
So I have a bunch of files from my old hard drive and I would like to copy them to my new system. Would it be possible after installing windows etc on the new one, to load the old HDD up as a slave drive to copy files off of? It will still have Windows installed so I dont know if it will work or not. Thanks! 🙂

That'll work.