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yes, the poblem only occurs when it isn't a slave.
Putting it in as a slave will be the same as adding any
working drive to your system.
Because the programs have registered themselves with windows
when they were installed, and a different windows is running the system
some of them won't work. You'll just have to try and see what does
work and what doesn't program wise.
All of your data files will be accessable the same as they were
before. This is a good way to move all your files from an
old system to a new one. Just put the old one in as a slave,
copy the stuff to the new one, take the old out and you
have all your files on your new system.
alex
"sdlomi2" <sdlomi2@spam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Conor" <conor.turton@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> In article <%bFIe.5021$_41.2922@fe02.lga>, sdlomi2 says...
>> > Can I use the h/d from my old computer with XP Pro, still full of
>> > information & programs, as a slave in my new computer, also XP Pro? If
> so,
>> > how do I jumper and cable it? There is be only 1 other ide, a
> dvd-burner.
>> > I realize the hardware is different, but I don't wish to boot from it;
>> > neither do I wish to re-format it. MS-regulations is not a concern.
> Thanks
>> > for help. s
>> >
>> Set the jumpers on the drive to Slave. Stick it on an IDE cable
>> connector.
> First of all, thank you. Are you saying that it WILL work ok even tho'
> it was configured, formatted, and spent its earlier life on a completely
> different machine? Is the problem only when you try to move such a h/d to
> a
> new computer and use it as the ONLY or MASTER h/d? s
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