My moms' computer is way too slow to operate anymore. She had a full copy of Windows XP on her system, and it took at least a half hour for anything to properly load. I pulled out my old PC, a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 w/ Hyperthreading, 3 GB of RAM, AGP 8x, good enough to handle XP with ease and do all the things she needs to do with relative speed.
However, I'm having a small issue with the hard drives. The original hard drive that was in there is all my old data, it's packed completely full of crap. I took my moms' hard drive out and plugged it in, however, it keeps booting into my original hard drive since it's set as the "primary drive". Both drives have XP Home on them.
I unplugged my old hard drive and kept hers plugged in, but, it will not load into Windows, and it is still set as the "Primary Slave Drive" or something like that. My old HDD is a SATA hard drive, hers is an IDE.
I want both hard drives in the computer, so, if I ever need my old data, I can go and get it, but, at the same time, hers needs to be the dominant hard drive and mine merely a catalyst, so it loads into her hard drive and she can do all she needs. I'm not exactly sure how to do this, as I've never tried to do it before.
Any help would be appreciated. Will this simply not work?
Thanks!
NeciFiX
However, I'm having a small issue with the hard drives. The original hard drive that was in there is all my old data, it's packed completely full of crap. I took my moms' hard drive out and plugged it in, however, it keeps booting into my original hard drive since it's set as the "primary drive". Both drives have XP Home on them.
I unplugged my old hard drive and kept hers plugged in, but, it will not load into Windows, and it is still set as the "Primary Slave Drive" or something like that. My old HDD is a SATA hard drive, hers is an IDE.
I want both hard drives in the computer, so, if I ever need my old data, I can go and get it, but, at the same time, hers needs to be the dominant hard drive and mine merely a catalyst, so it loads into her hard drive and she can do all she needs. I'm not exactly sure how to do this, as I've never tried to do it before.
Any help would be appreciated. Will this simply not work?
Thanks!
NeciFiX