Installing a 2nd hard drive w/out losing data...

[bigsnack]

Hello, here are the specs on the machine:
Sony VIO
XP
Pentium 4 1.4 GHz
128 MB RAM

The system described above runs great. What I am trying to do is take a Hard Drive from an older machine (a self build with Windows 2000 installed) and install it in the Sony machine w/out reformatting it so I can keep all of the files that are on the old drive. I tried just plugging the drive in, but when I tried to boot, the computer gave me a system boot error, which I am assuming is because the cpu thinks the new drive is the master hard drive instead of a slave. I think I have to adjust the 'jumpers' to let the computer know I want the 2nd hard drive to be a slave drive, but aside from that is there anything else I need to do to get access to the old hard drive in my new machine? Thanks in advance.

 

[T1junkie]

you should just need to adjust the Jumpers and make sure the boot order in the BIOS is correct

 

[startec]

u can also try to do it through the cable select
primary should have the jumpers on
secondry need not have any-ie slave
-that would work

 

[bigsnack]

So do you think I will or will not have to adjust anything in the bios? If so, what setting would it be? I've yet to explore changing BIOS options. Thanks for the replies!