[dba-Tech] RE: [AccessD] Help with moving files from one hard drive to ...

One caveat to this plan.  Make sure he's aware that when you crack the case 
and install the old drive into the new machine, he'll more than likely void his 
warranty.

Donna

> 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