fitting a HD from a different PC.

Crossy · 16 Apr 2007 at 16:22

Hi, i have a hard drive in my old PC which has all my music and photo's etc on. Im just wondering how i would go about of fitting it into my new pc which is sata but the older HD is IDE. The older HD also has a operating system. Will this be a problem? If not how would i go about fitting it?

Ryan

semi-pro waster · 16 Apr 2007 at 16:30

If you have a spare IDE port (or at the minimum a spare connector on the IDE lead) then you can put the hard drive into your new PC. Remember to set the boot order in the bios so that you boot from the SATA hard drive but other than that it should just appear in Windows as normal.

Crossy · 16 Apr 2007 at 16:32

So what about there being a windows on it? Will that not affect it? Also will it just be under my computer?

EternalMovement · 16 Apr 2007 at 16:32

Just plug it all in, go into the bios and check to see that the hard disk boot priority is set first for the newer sata hard drive and not the older one.
Load up windows and the job should be done.
It should just appear as another drive in my computer and it won't matter that it has an os on it

rpstewart · 16 Apr 2007 at 16:41

EDIT: Far too slow

Crossy · 16 Apr 2007 at 16:57

ok ive just doen that and its picked up fine etc. but now that i try and access documents and settings and then Ryan Crossland (my name and documents) it says access denied! Thats the main folder that i need!. Anyone help?

rpstewart · 16 Apr 2007 at 17:11

You need to log on as an administrator level ID and take ownership of the files on the old disk. Should be a case of going through the properties page of the top directory and pushing the ownership down to all the files etc.

Crossy · 16 Apr 2007 at 17:20

Could you be kind enough to step by step it for me please. As im not that good with things like this.

EternalMovement · 16 Apr 2007 at 17:40

Right-click the file or folder, click Properties, and then click the Security tab.

Click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.

Click Edit, and then do one of the following:

To change the owner to a user or group that is not listed, click Other users and groups and, in Enter the object name to select (examples), type the name of the user or group, and then click OK.

To change the owner to a user or group that is listed, in the Change owner to box, click the new owner.

I,ve pasted the above from Vista's help section.
I'm 99% sure its the same for xp if your using that, try the above and if it does not work just do a search in help and support for "access denied" or "ownership" without the quotes.

Crossy · 16 Apr 2007 at 17:44

There is no Security tab only general, sharing and customise.

EternalMovement · 16 Apr 2007 at 17:51

Is it xp home your using? if it is look at this for how to get the security tab to show up.

Crossy · 16 Apr 2007 at 18:01

Lunix said:
Is it xp home your using? if it is look at this for how to get the security tab to show up.

Im using Professional with SP2

Crossy · 16 Apr 2007 at 18:08

Argh i still cant get into it! Is there any programs that will let me access it?.

EternalMovement · 16 Apr 2007 at 18:10

Try this and hopefuly your be able to see the security box on folders/files after.

Click Start, and then click My Computer.
2. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options, and then click the View tab.
3. In the Advanced Settings section, clear the Use simple file sharing (Recommended) check box.
4. Click OK.

Crossy · 16 Apr 2007 at 19:50

Thanks mate i done that about 30 mins ago and it worked :d cheers for the help!

EternalMovement · 16 Apr 2007 at 20:14

Good to know it worked