Using a HD as for data transportation

[TruculentTucan]

Basically I'm getting together my new system and I want to take about 1.5 gigs worth of stuff off of our family computer. I was thinking of taking the HD from my parent's computer and just putting it in my new one (not as the primary but as the secondary). Then I would copy the data off of it and replace it in the old system. Can anyone think of any problems that might arise (data corruption, etc)?

Thanks

 

[dowxp]

its the best way IMO. just dont drop it. and it'll be fine.

goodluck

 

[TruculentTucan]

ok, thanks a lot

 

[Topochicho]

Make it the master on the second ide and you won't have to worry about rejumpering between the 2 machines.

 

[MichaelD]

You got it. That's the best way. Good luck.

 

[TruculentTucan]

Hey, thanks a lot, I'm not too much of an expert on hardware for PCs (although I'm learning thanks to all of you guys!) so Topochicho, what exactly do you mean? Can't I just plug it into the second IDE port on my new pc? or will that not work? Sorry, I guess I need a little more explaining. =)


Thanks guys!

 

[MrWhiteUK]

Yeah Ive done it loads times, just make sure u dont rest the circuitry on the bottom against any metal.

 

[winterlude]

Hard drives have master and slave jumpers. If the old drive was a master in another computer, you can't simply put it as a slave in this one. You have to change the jumpers on the back of the drive to slave. It's easier though to put it as the master of your secondary IDE, because a lot of drives don't have the master/slave jumper configs on them.

Good luck!

 

[TruculentTucan]

ok, so the hd would be a master HD because it is the only hardrive on my old machine. If I put it in my new computer as the master then the OS on that drive (win98) will load, right? then I can just copy the data to the new drive, put the old one back in the old computer, and then set the new one to master? is that correct? ALso if I have data on the new drive and I load an OS onto it will the data be over-written?

thanks again guys