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**Doby** · 11-22-2008, 06:02 PM

You really can't (most times) boot another computer with a hardrive that had windows installed on it because of driver issues, you can however use it as a slave drive to retrieve data.

Is it a sata or ide drive?

11-22-2008, 06:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
Doby Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Central PA (USA) Posts: 8,056 OS: XP sp2/ Vista My System	Re: need helping swapping a hard drive You really can't (most times) boot another computer with a hardrive that had windows installed on it because of driver issues, you can however use it as a slave drive to retrieve data. Is it a sata or ide drive? __________________ Would you like to help TSF fight cancer and other diseases??? JOIN TEAM TSF