Question about getting information off a old HDD

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tsonka

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Just ordered my 500g Seagate 7200.11 HDD

My old HDD has bout 40gig worth of stuff I want. I was thinking of just attaching the old HDD to my PC by way of eSATA port and copying the files over and not messing with transfering the files to a different medium then transfering them again to the new HDD.


My question is, the old HDD wil have Windows XP loaded on it. If I have my new HDD up and running with Vista installed on it, then plug in another HDD with XP on it, will my PC wig out or will it just show windows folders on the old hard drive.
 
It will just show up as another drive and when you click on it it will have everything that it would have if it was the main drive. Just so you know an esata port doesn't provide power for a drive so you will need to hook it up to something for power.
 
the eSATA bracket that came with my Gigabyte mobo has a power connector that attaches to it to the power supply. Just gotta come up with a power plug to attach the HDD to the bracket.
 
You could just leave the old drive in the machine. No muss, no fuss, just change the boot order. Just disconnect the old drive when installing your new OS.

Good Luck!
 
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