How can I move one hard drive to another computer?

[mikef208]

I have a hard drive out of a Compaq. I need to get the info off of it and onto my new computer. I was wondering if I could just installt eh drive in the new computer and copy all the info over. Although this drive already has a copy of Win 98 on it, would that screw up the computer if I copy the whole drive, or should I just go through and pick all the stuff I want and then copy all of it without the OS and other junk. I already have Win ME on the new computer. Help me out. Thanks

 

[AKA]

If your new computers hard drive is big enough, you can create a folder (old hard drive) and copy all contents of compaq hard drive into that folder. Then be able to access things as you need them.

 

[Gunbuster]

Just be sure to set it to slave when putting on the other puter to copy the data

 

[Sir Fredrick]

Don't expect most of the apps on that drive to work though.

 

[Ender510]

Depends on what you are copying.. if they are actual apps you want to run, I'd just install the progs over.. but copy over the HD into a folder like mentioned above.. then just copy of the data files into the corresponding directory after reinstalling the apps you want. Shouldn't be a problem of being able to "see" the data.. only when you have NT's NTFS format vs FAT or linux formats you have the visibility probs..