My current set-up on an OLD OLD computer is 2 SCSI hard drives and an IDE hard drive. One of the SCSi drives is currently the boot drive, but I want to rid SCSi and boot from the IDE. Could I just make a copy of the Windows folder in the SCSi boot drive and place it in the IDE then disconnect the SCSi cables? Will that work? it'll just see the IDE and no SCSI, and since the IDe will have all the windows stuff, it should boot, right?

NO..... SCSI devices use intelligent controllers. Which means that the BIOS on the machine would not be set correctly for an IDE HDD. You will need to set the IDE HDD as the main HD on the system. According to how old the system is you might have to set the cyl/head information in BIOS. As for the windows scenario you mentioned, I would guess that would not work either. Probably would be better to just get the info off the SCSI HDD's you want. And then just fdsik and format the IDE HDD and install windows on it. Underdog

In most things two ide drives and an ide drive and a SCSI drive do not differ to the operator of the computer with a few exceptions. If you were booting to SCSI before IDE, this is set somewhere in the bios. To do what you want to do regardless of whether the drives are IDE or SCSI, you need to drive copy the contents of the boot drive to the new drive someway. If you have been accessing the IDE drive at all and if it has any operating system on it now, disconnecting the SCSI drives will cause it to boot or you can boot to it with a floppy and SYS it.

Yep. And one good bit of software for backing up your hard drive onto cd rom is Norton Ghost. You cant just copy info from drive to drive, as the IDE drive still needs to be "setup" by the Windows OS before it will work. SO, you can install windows, or just use Norton Ghost to backup from one, and install backup into new IDE.