Researching for harddrive swap, help!
Mar 14, 2008 | 02:23 AM
#11
the problem is XP will only see 3 gigs of memory.
even if you have 4 gigs installed it will only see 3.
i really don't think you can just plug and play your old C drive
in to a new system and be up and running with no problems.
my motherboard went out long ago, replaced it with the same
motherboard and it would not go past the bios screen and load windows.
i thought it would be easy, no it was not.
took to a PC repair place and i was told that windows will be married
to the HD id number and the motherboards id number.
the only thing i could do was install my HD as a slave in another system
and burn all of my photos and songs to a cd.
put my HD back in to my machine and reinstall windows.
when he was done i had to put all of my info back on it
just like the day i took it out of the box.
even if you have 4 gigs installed it will only see 3.
i really don't think you can just plug and play your old C drive
in to a new system and be up and running with no problems.
my motherboard went out long ago, replaced it with the same
motherboard and it would not go past the bios screen and load windows.
i thought it would be easy, no it was not.
took to a PC repair place and i was told that windows will be married
to the HD id number and the motherboards id number.
the only thing i could do was install my HD as a slave in another system
and burn all of my photos and songs to a cd.
put my HD back in to my machine and reinstall windows.
when he was done i had to put all of my info back on it
just like the day i took it out of the box.
Mar 14, 2008 | 01:37 PM
#13
Thanks for all the input guys. I contacted a computer shop. I bought a HD enclosure that the shop said would work. I was running XP on the HD. I also sucked it up and upgraded to a Toshiba Satellite P205D-S7438. I know it's not the greatest in the world but I don't game and it was $700 brand new/shipped. Here are the specs:
(I am looking into another 1GB for memory because I hear Vista is a memory hog)
17" Laptop, 1.8GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor TK-55, 1 GB RAM DDR II SDRAM - 667 MHz , 160 GB Hard Drive(5400rpm), DVD writer, Vista Home Premium.
Thats the important stuff I guess. It has plenty of USBs, a fire wire, card reader etc....
A selling poiint for me was the number pad. I hate using the numbers along the top.
I'm sure it's tons better than my Dell Inspiron 1000, lol
(I am looking into another 1GB for memory because I hear Vista is a memory hog)
17" Laptop, 1.8GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor TK-55, 1 GB RAM DDR II SDRAM - 667 MHz , 160 GB Hard Drive(5400rpm), DVD writer, Vista Home Premium.
Thats the important stuff I guess. It has plenty of USBs, a fire wire, card reader etc....
A selling poiint for me was the number pad. I hate using the numbers along the top.
I'm sure it's tons better than my Dell Inspiron 1000, lol
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