Switching hard drive/transferring data. I have all my games installed on my D drive(non-system drive). I have a new 500GB drive and I want to transfer my game installation folders over to it and make it my new D drive. I was wondering what the best method to...

help Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers () Hi, Kev. Jumpers are a type of electrical switches on a hard drive or DVD drive. One or more rows of pins are lined up so that a small (maybe 1/4" square, usually black) metal-lined...

Switching laptop hard drives. Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops () I have a new Dell Inspiron laptop and one that is about 2 years old and want to switch the hard drives in them. I tried to put the old hard drive in the new computer and it wouldn't...

Switching Hard Drives. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware () I just bought a brand new dell computer with windows xp installed. My old computer too has windows xp installed, plus tons of other files. I want to put the old hard drive...

red x's on web pages instead of pictures. I installed a new hard drive in my computer. Since then web pages load with red x's where pictures or graphics should be. I reset my internet options to default, I set my security to low, and I went to microsoft update...

computer with a newer cpu w/XP home installed. Instead of reinstalling all of my programs and updates, can I simply switch my own new C hard drive w/XP home with installed and updated programs with the hard drive w/XP home in the newer computer? Will...

Switching Hard Drives. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware () I took my computer in to a repair guy I later discovered is very unreliable. So this explains my reluctance to take it back. Anyhow, I have two hard drives, a 19 GB and...

connectors which all support raid and then there are two more ports which are for "Drive Xpert" (ASUS's raid controller). I tried switching the hard drive to another port but it still showed up in the array. Wow WorknPlay. Thanks for the detailed post but it...

to test with) I have a feeling that i cannot transfer hard drives from a stock dell to a new build gigabyte. Would this cause the build not to enter bios? (switching the hard drive) Things i've tried swapping ram into every slot in every combination...

be the proper location. [EDIT]Oops, I said 'copy' when I meant 'replace' Don't mean to sound ignorant but I'm not sure how to do what you suggested as far as switching hard drives. The most I have ever done to the inside of a computer is add memory. What...