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oldhat · 05-30-2007, 10:11 AM

My computer is old and when it would not boot I decided to invest in a new one. The new computer came with a SATA HDD running xp. I want to install my old ATA HDD as a second drive as this contains all my existing files.
As there is only one IDE port I have tried to connect it as a slave drive to my DVD drive (which is set to Master)but now the computer will not boot. As the old drive was running xp os, is it still recognising it a C and trying to boot from both drives? Any idea how to get the machine to boot correctly and recognise the old drive.

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oldhat Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1 OS: xp	transfering old hard drive to new computer My computer is old and when it would not boot I decided to invest in a new one. The new computer came with a SATA HDD running xp. I want to install my old ATA HDD as a second drive as this contains all my existing files. As there is only one IDE port I have tried to connect it as a slave drive to my DVD drive (which is set to Master)but now the computer will not boot. As the old drive was running xp os, is it still recognising it a C and trying to boot from both drives? Any idea how to get the machine to boot correctly and recognise the old drive.