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Wo, take a chill pill guys
0x54 said::\. i still dont understand.
my quantum went from a pentium 2 era celeron to a amd 2 ghz barton box fine.
can you tell us something about the harddrive? a link on google perhaps?
and whats the new motherboard?
theres something unusual going on if a 3 year old harddrive wont work in a new motherboard
(unless they're started shipping motherboards with just sata support, which i wasnt aware of..though i wasnt watching so it may have happened already :$)
/me nods
i know im not being too helpfull.
feel free to ignore me. its in the preferences somewhere.
root said:going between PIII and PIV shouldn't be a problem, the hard drive controllers still work the same.
It's easiest to try and stick the old hard drives into a new machine without changing anything, if it works then thats great, but if it doesn't then you won't have lost anything.
if that doesn't work then I'm affraid you are quite stuck, there is no real way to copy programs from one install to another, most programs install files al over the place (and create registry keys) it'd literally take you weeks to find them all, and even when you found them there is no guarenteeing it would work.
Lord Kalthorn said:This is a very confusing problem. But I think you're making it harder than it is. You replace the Motherboard; I suppose as you said you get a new Graphics Card in time. But you wasnt to copy your Hard Drive?
If this is to get a new bigger hard drive - then plug your old drive in as Secondary and copy over from Windows installed on the new drive all the useful stuff you want to keep. Then just install your programs.
However, if you don't mind about size then the Hard Drive will work on the new Motherboard. I don't know why you think it won't - but you should probably try.