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Old 8th July 2008 | 22:18
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Keygrip


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Adopt a hard drive into the family?

Trying to be PC (pun intended).

I have an old and dying desktop machine, holds one EIDE hard drive which has various goodies on it that I would still like to keep.

The drive also holds a full, licensed and verified copy of Windows XP Pro.

I have a new desktop - Vista Ultimate. 64 bit. This machine currently holds two (but can hold four) SATA drives and has a space and connection for an EIDE drive.

Can I import the drive only from the old PC and have the new one adopt it as a third data drive (either with or without access to the XP Pro operating system)?

Sigh. I hate compyooters when they don't work the way I want them to.

Do you even understand my question? I'm not sure I do - and I wrote it.
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