Has anyone ever used an old hard drive on new hardware?

[Haervii]

I have, and it won't boot. I took out all the PCI devices and CDROM, and befor I took the HDD out, I deleted all the old drivers. Can someone help me?

 

[Tominator]

Use your boot disc and at the A prompt type
Sys C:
Reboot.

Maybe, maybe not...


Btw, did you select Auto Detect in BIOS? You may need to set the perimeters for the drive to be properly identified.

 

[Haervii]

I have a windows 95 boot disc...Is that good enough ? Yeah, what are the are the perimeters I have to set?

 

[Tominator]

No, the Win95 boot disk does not have CDrom drivers. Russ has a downloadable universal boot disk at Compucheap.

The parimeters should be listed on the drive itself. If not you might try using the program available from the manfacturer of the drive...Maxtor=Maxblast for instance. The program will identify you drive in detail and set it up for an OS.

When you get the perimeters, in BIOS you will see the option to manually set up the harddrives or automatic. I've found that automatic does not properly identify all the parimeters every time. Some mbs will identify a drive properly and some will not.