My brother has advised me that there is some data on the old hard drive from his old desk top that he had. He phoned me to ask if there is any way that we can retrieve the information that is required. The only way that I can think off doing such a way is to turn it into a slave drive, but before we attempt to do that it would be great to get some advice on the matter. First off I do not know on what sort of HDD it is or what make of drive it is, also the O/S that the was on said PC was Windows ME. The current PC is running Windows XP Home edition. As I do not want to get a conflicting OS now do we. Please could you advise me on what precaution that I should take as I believe that the ME O/S is in the old hard drive? I shall have to wipe the ME O/S from that hard drive or will I have to re format the drive? I shall have to by the cables that will be required to complete the job. Will there be any drivers that will be required if so please could you advise me. I thank you all for the advice that shall be imparted to and shall keep you advised on how things go. Regards. Before attempting some thing ask questions.
As long as the drive is not formatted in NTFS you'll be fine. Just put it as cable select or slave and put it on an IDE cable.
If you attempt to reformat the hard drive, you will by all probability, delete the data you require. All you need to do is make sure the old hard drive is set as a slave drive (make sure the jumpers at the back are set up correctly), then connect it to the spare IDE on the cable. I am assuming you have only the one hard drive on the current cable. Power the hard drive up and you'll be fine.
