Two Hard Drives in one computer

[Catchen22]

My cousin has a really slow computer ( 166 mhz ) and his computer can't support a burner. He's got alot of songs on his hard drive and wants to burn them but like I said his computer won't support a burner. I was wondering if I could put his hard drive in my computer but still boot up from my hard drive? How would I set this up? WIll anything change on his hard drive? Will anything change on my hard drive?

 

[zodder]

I don't see any problems with doing that. Connect it as a slave on your IDE1 (assuming your boot partition is on master IDE1) or anywhere on your IDE2. As long as you keep your boot partition as the active partition, it will boot off of your disk and you can copy away.

 

[IamDavid]

Do what zodder said and you'll be fine. Why won't his PC support a cd burner? I've had them on a P1 100Mhz system.

 

[Catchen22]

<< Do what zodder said and you'll be fine. Why won't his PC support a cd burner? I've had them on a P1 100Mhz system. >>



I don't know why his computer won't support it. The guy at the store said that our computer might be to old. This is his system.

ACER COMPUTER
166mhz P1
32 megs of ram
Really really small hard drive
generic video card and sound card

 

[C0nr4d]

Do this exactly 😛 - i don't think anyone has mentioned Jumpers!

Take the HDD out of ur cousins machine, then, put it in ur pc, and connect it to the same IDE cable that ur HDD is connected to, but before u put it in u will need to set the jumper on the back of the HDD to determine the drive as a slave or it will not be detected by bios, when u boot up it will bott off ur drive as it is master as long as u have set IDE-0 as 1st boot device in bios.