1.I have two older computers and like to combine them to make one.
a.how do i find the date of manufacture?
b.one comp.has XP professional on it and I want to keep it.Disk size is 10 gigabytes.
c.second computer I have been using.disk size is 40 gigabytes and mail program Eudora
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manufactured date of computer?
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Normally, if you look inside the computer, you will see a wide flat cable. It will be attached to your hard drive. Just before that will be another connector that can plug your other hard into. It may be necessary to change a jumper(connection) on the 2nd drive, to make it work
Thanks.....My prefernce is XP which I have never used it is on the 10 gbyte drive and windows 98 is on th 40gbyte drive along with Eudora.Will XP lok at these two drives as one with a total capacity of
50 gbytes........Also how can I tell if my usb connection is 2.0 ?? Oldsalt
In that case you will want to set your 40 GB drive as the slave drive. Once you do that, your system will boot from the 10 GB drive with XP and the 40 GB drive will be given the next logical drive (most likely it will be your D: drive). Since your new C: drive will be so small, when you reinstall your programs do not used the default settings (which will be c:\Program Files\Name) rather change the C: to D: and leave everything else the same. The programs will just go D:\Program Files\Name and XP will have access to them. All of your documents that are on the 40 GB drive will now be residing on your D: drive.
EDIT: @Lighthouse, it's enough for the OS but not much else.
oldsalt, since you don't have an XP install CD, you won't be doing a reinstall, so here are my suggestions:
* remove the 40 GB drive from the old system, and install it as the second drive in the new (XP) system.
* The 10 GB drive will remain your XP boot disk and will be your C: drive.
* The 40 GB drive will be a data drive and should be the D: drive.
* There are ways to make XP see the two drives as one 50 GB partition, but I don't recommend it.
* Eudora will run on XP just fine. Your mailboxes, attachments, and embedded folders will all be on the D: drive.
* You will have to install Eudora under XP, then either import your mailboxes from the old location, or copy the folders over to the new location.
Now I see as I was typing this long-winded response that others have responded. At least we are in agreement.
I have an old 98 machine in mothballs,still works on 40 gig hard drive. Was messing around with it 1 day,seeing if I could install xp. If I recall my vidio/graphic card needed to be upgraded to at least 128 mb,that may be an issue with old salt. BTW old salt,you ever in the Navy?,I was,good luck matey.
Windows XP does not like being transfered to another computer.
If you do it will likely not boot and you will need to a repair install with the installation cd to make it boot on the new hardware. A repair install can cause problems like erasing some configuration settings and messing up installed programs.
The reason this happens is because Windows XP only installs the disk controller driver for the hardware it's installed to and when moving to another computer with a different disk controller it will not work. There are also other things like the HAL that can be different from one computer to another also.
Windows 98 is better about being transfered but it can still have problems.
It will boot but not always to normal mode. Sometimes when transfered it will only work in Safe Mode.
recapping some advice..............
leave my 10 gb drive with XP on my new computer.install my 40 gb drive to my new computer
and make it a slave.
Questions:
1.All of my programs on the old drive(40gb)will not be recognized by XP as they were created
with windows 98...Is this correct?
2.everytime I put a program on the slave dr.will I have a choice to change the address to
D from C ??Does this include netscape and IE ?
3.Is there a away to change the address permantely from C to D or is this a bad idea?
4.I'm not tech savy so this process would have to be explained step by step to me......
sorry about that but I am in my 70"s Oldsalt
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