[AccessD] Help with moving files from one hard drive to anot her (Cross posted)

Drew Wutka DWUTKA at marlow.com
Fri Dec 5 17:46:27 CST 2003


Okay.  Putting the old hard drive in the new machine is the best idea.  BIG
CATCH on that.  The catch is he'll need an open IDE spot.  What I HIGHLY
recommend is that he open his new computer, take the connections from his
CD-ROM and plug them into the old hard drive.  Then boot up.  Your computer
should have 2 IDE ports, a primary and secondary.  Off of those ports are
your IDE cables, which have two connections for a master and a slave.  You
need to make sure you have only one master on each cable, and if there is a
second device, that it's configured as a slave.  Typically, a lot of
prebuilt computers have the HD as a Master on the primary IDE, and the
CD-Rom as the Master on the secondary IDE.  That's why I suggested just
swapping cables with the CD-ROM.  Of course if there are two CD-Rom's,
you'll need the one that is the master.

As for plugging them 'together', to connect two computer directly through
their NICs, you need a cross-over cable, not a normal Cat-5 cable.

Drew

P.S.--further discussion on this thread should move to the Tech list....

-----Original Message-----
From: Stoker, Kenneth E [mailto:Kenneth.Stoker at pnl.gov]
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 5:36 PM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com; AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] Help with moving files from one hard drive to another
(Cross posted)


Everyone,

I have a co-worker who came to me and asked me how to get the files off
his old computer onto his new computer.  First questions I asked were do
you have any larger capacity media drives, cd burner, zip drive, etc.
Answer is no.  So, I thought it should be possible for him to open his
old computer, take out the hard drive, put it in his new computer and
the new computer on boot up should recognize the older hard drive.  Is
this correct?

Old machine:  PII 233MHz running Win98
New machine:  PIV 2.66 GHz running WinXP Pro.

Another option is that he says both machines have NICs.  Can he just
plug the two machines together through the NICs and have them recognize
each other?

I have to admit that I haven't tried to do things this way myself so I
hope that some extra guidance can help us get this right.

Any help offered is greatly appreciated.

Ken Stoker
Technology Commercialization
Information Systems Administrator
PH: (509) 375-3758
FAX: (509) 375-6731
E-mail:  Kenneth.Stoker at pnl.gov 

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