[cawleym1]

Hi All. Very new to this, so please have forgiveness in your soul.


Had a terminal cpu crash on my old dell. I was using XP. Removed the seagate 7200.7. Purchased a new Compaq Presario running pre loaded Vista home Premium (God Help Me).


I want to use the old hard drive as an external hard drive. I have purchased (waiting for delivery) an adapter kit with usb cable. I need to retrieve files from this old Hard Drive. Does anyone foresee a problem with accessing the data held on the old hard drive. I have had so many upsets with Vista that I've come to expect problems.


Cheers in advance.

[Carbon]

No, it'll show up just like a regular hard drive. It may be really slow because of the USB (I would have just plugged it in like it was originally) but you should have no problems.

[cawleym1]

Many thanks.
The hard drive is a Sata version and there are no jumpers fitted to it. I won't be able to set it to master. any problems?

Thanks Again

[Carbon]

SATA have no jumpers, that's why they're so convenient - no messing around with master/slave/cable select mumbo jumpers, just plug in and use. Shouldn't be a problem.

[cawleym1]

I a;so took it to a computer shop and they could not get it to work on my compaq as a slave?

[Carbon]

Originally Posted by cawleym1

I a;so took it to a computer shop and they could not get it to work on my compaq as a slave?

If it's SATA they're BSing you, like I said there is no master/slave thing in SATA, that's IDE/PATA only.

[cawleym1]

Many thanks my friend.
Cheers

[philthomas]

Originally Posted by cawleym1

I a;so took it to a computer shop and they could not get it to work on my compaq as a slave?

Did they actually try to hook it up ? .... if not, they were either fobbing you off, or dont know what they'e doing ........... as Carbon says SATA drives have no Master or Slave settings.

[cawleym1]

Actualy, I asked them to fit the old hard drive and set it up as a dual boot system. new hard drive with Vista and old with XP. they said that they could not do it. So i asked them to get rid of the vista and load XP in the New disc that came with the Compaq. they said there was something about the Compaq that prevented them from doing it. They put in a totaly new hard drive and it would still not take the XP. They thought it was something to do with the compaq harware? What do I know.

Thanks for your input

[philthomas]

Sounds like they didn't want the job .... probably a bit too much like hard work for them, or they didn't know how ........ was it PC World by any chance ?