Toymods Car Club Inc: The Outhouse => SMART COMPUTER PEOPLE HELP!

Toymods Car Club
www.toymods.org.au

F.A.Q.

Home

Members

Toymods » The Outhouse » SMART COMPUTER PEOPLE HELP! Show: Today's Posts :: Show Polls Email to friend

Author

Topic

coronamark2
Forums Junkie

Location:
Perth
Registered:
May 2003

Re: SMART COMPUTER PEOPLE HELP!

Tue, 10 February 2004 06:35

ke70_3SGTE wrote on Tue, 10 February 2004 14:14

coronamark2 wrote on Tue, 10 February 2004 17:02

personally i think windows 2000 is better. XP has a few bugs but if you download ALL of the service packs and updates XP is pretty reliable.

No win 98?? so go the 2000

coronamark2 wrote on Tue, 10 February 2004 17:02

what you need to do is setup your new computer,

open up your old computer rip the Hard Drive out (make sure it s turned off)

On some new computers you can just pug a second HD in and it will recognise it but with some you have to make the HD (your old one) a slave drive (nerd term dont worry Laughing

)

on the back off your hd there will be 3 things a long port where the wide but thin cable goes (ide cable) the and a port with 4 round pins (power) then a little port with small brass looking pins there will be a little plastic clip on in the little port if you can there should be a little diagram or engraving the tells you where to put the plastic clip so the HD will be a slave.

or if i just totaly confused you take it out bring it to a computer shop and ask them kindly to make the HD a slave and they should do it for free.

I remeber doing something like that to trick the computer to thinking the 40gig drive was 16g so it would recongise it

coronamark2 wrote on Tue, 10 February 2004 17:02

take the side panel of your new computer (im assuming you know how to do this) if not there will be two philips head screws undo them and it should slide of, NOW remeber them 2 cables i told you about (power & ide) you should be able to mount the old hd under neath the new one then plug it in there will be connectors on each cable that is piggy backed from the exsiting HD.

then turn your PC on and it should start up as normal if it doesnt you might get a message like cannot load operating system, cannot find primary hard drive, or it might just beep at you and not turn on.

assuming it works which it should if you can follow my bable
just go in to my computer on the desktop and there will now be a another drive there(your old one YAY)it will either say D: or E: drive

then just copy all of the data you want on your new computer or keep the HD in there for more memory usage

i will try that, and im not a complete moron! i built my own computer from buying stuff from a swap meet Twisted Evil

coronamark2 wrote on Tue, 10 February 2004 17:02

or the easy solution is bring it to a computer shop and say can you put my old hard rive in to my new computer it will take them 5 minutes if that.

ps.sorry if it doesnt make sence i can do it off the top of my head put explainig it is another story

thanks Adam.

No i'll pass, he is a FOB asian and i cant understand anything, and since im black when i go in they are all 4ft tall and think im gonna rob the place... Laughing

Thanks for all that, i hope all my quoting works never tried so much! Laughing

Nate

dont touch 98 it is shit at least go 2000 (i'll send you a copy if you want Laughing

)

i didnt know your computer skill so try and plug the old hard drive in first and see if it works if not put the jumper on it then plug it in.

go to the place and say "wat you say about my mumma!?"

"brace yourslef"

jk

[Report message to a moderator]

[Message index]

-=] Back to Top [=-

Current Time: Mon Jul 28 02:16:08 UTC 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.0043869018554688 seconds

.:: Contact :: Home ::.