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migrating old HD to new XP system
Name: Jace Date: August 20, 2002 at 21:32:26 Pacific
Comment:
My office Dell PC has died. Bad P/S killed motherboard, etc. I have bought a new HP Pavilion 502 system with XP pre-installed. I would like to rip the harddrive out of the old PC (40 Gb; it has a lot of valuable data)and install it in the new system for added capacity and access to old files. The last time I did this, I was working in DOS. Is it still as simple as setting master and slave jumpers, accessing BIOS and setting harddrive options, etc.??
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