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nick97 · 01-07-2007, 01:32 PM

Hi - I'm new here, and this is probably easy.

My primary PC's motherboard is dead. It's pretty old, so no big deal. I have another PC with ME on the hard drive, and it's just a little bit older than the dead one.

So I figured I'd simply take the hard drive out of the dead one and run it out of the older one. This hard drive has XP sp2, all my apps and hundreds of files. I know the drive works fine.

I took the drive with ME on it out of the old box, and put in my XP drive (40gig). Then when I reboot, I get a Disk not ready error. Put in the XP CD to reinstall, and get message that there is no hard drive on the computer. (this box is from 1999 and had 98/ME installed.)

I put the drive with ME back in, went to Gateways website, and downloaded and installed an updated BIOS. Still will not detect the drive.

With the ME drive as master, and XP as slave, ME detects the disk, but says that it is not formatted.

I know the XP drive works fine, because I'm running it as master in my brother's box right now as I type this message.

Any help or suggestions would surely be appreciated.

01-07-2007, 01:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
nick97 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 4 OS: xp	Cannot use hard drive in older computer Hi - I'm new here, and this is probably easy. My primary PC's motherboard is dead. It's pretty old, so no big deal. I have another PC with ME on the hard drive, and it's just a little bit older than the dead one. So I figured I'd simply take the hard drive out of the dead one and run it out of the older one. This hard drive has XP sp2, all my apps and hundreds of files. I know the drive works fine. I took the drive with ME on it out of the old box, and put in my XP drive (40gig). Then when I reboot, I get a Disk not ready error. Put in the XP CD to reinstall, and get message that there is no hard drive on the computer. (this box is from 1999 and had 98/ME installed.) I put the drive with ME back in, went to Gateways website, and downloaded and installed an updated BIOS. Still will not detect the drive. With the ME drive as master, and XP as slave, ME detects the disk, but says that it is not formatted. I know the XP drive works fine, because I'm running it as master in my brother's box right now as I type this message. Any help or suggestions would surely be appreciated.