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Posted: 4 years ago
Telly why don't you just hook up the drives to the new motherboard with an IDE cable, same as they are now and then copy everything?
Your new computer most likely uses SATA connections, but it should still have an IDE port on the motherboard. As long as your BIOS is set to boot to SATA first (it is), your old hard drives should just show up as D: and E: drive in Windows.
I think this is cheaper/easier than busting an external setup.
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Posted: 4 years ago
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SEMENROPESCALLYS said:Telly why don't you just hook up the drives to the new motherboard with an IDE cable, same as they are now and then copy everything?
Your new computer most likely uses SATA connections, but it should still have an IDE port on the motherboard. As long as your BIOS is set to boot to SATA first (it is), your old hard drives should just show up as D: and E: drive in Windows.
I think this is cheaper/easier than busting an external setup.
Thats what I thought first, but I am pretty sure that when you install windows onto an HDD it embeds a motherboard specific marker on it so that you cannot just continually transfer HDDs from comp to comp. I could be wrong or there may be ways around this, but if not I think going with a separate enclosure is your best bet.
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Posted: 4 years ago
That only causes issues if you try to boot windows from that old HDD, not if you boot off the new HDD and have the old HDD as a secondary. CALLYS WOULD KNOW HE RELEASED A RAP ALBUM.
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Posted: 4 years ago
Yeah what the dirty nigger above me said, it won't be trying to boot from the old disks unless you go into the bios and tell it to
Your new case Telly should have ample room for multiple hard drives, you will just need some screws. Just a pro builder tip though, sometimes if you stack hard drives directly on top of one another it can lead to lockups due to heat if you don't have adequate cooling, so I always try to leave one spot between them. Not a big deal if you can't, but preferable.
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My 6-yr old PC died this past weekend, I tried tinkering with it for 5 hours and nothing would make it boot up. I went out and got a new one finally. But anyways, I'd like to get my college documents and grad school application stuff off of my old hard drives. I spent a ton of time writing a lot of those things and I do not have internet copies of the majority of them. I've written about a half dozen grad school statement essays in the past two weeks and all of them are locked on those hard drives.
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My friend recommended getting an external enclosure and using the old hard drives as external hard drives for my new computer or just using that to copy over everything I wanted to keep.
My old PC had two Western Digital IDE 100gb and 80gb hard drives. Does the plan (1) buy an enclosure, 2) copy the data via USB, 3) profit) seem sound?
If so, can anyone recommend a good external enclosure to purchase? If not, does anyone have a better solution?