Question! x2

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:03 am

1. I have a Pentium III with 1 ghz sitting here. If I take my old hard drive from my Pentium 4, will it automatically adjust to all the settings (I doubt it but).

2. Can you say anything you may know on the situation instead of reading and leaving?

Unidentified Assilant · Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:29 am

I doubt it

I put a hard drive from a Pentium II into a AMD Athlon, and it worked

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:42 am

Unidentified Assilant wrote:I doubt it

I put a hard drive from a Pentium II into a AMD Athlon, and it worked

But did it adjust to your OS?

Unidentified Assilant · Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:35 am

dunno, my dad put the case back on and chipped the motherboard.... (we got into windows with it on, the old PC had Windows 95, the new one had Windfows XP Home, as soon as we got it on, it read it look a USB stick, without even installing anything

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Post by **Skyone** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 9:45 am

Yes, It USUALLY adjusts.

sniper_spike · Post by **sniper_spike** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 9:52 am

You'll have to format it to Fat32 if it's NTFS, it doesn't automatically do everything for you. Jeez.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:03 am

sniper_spike wrote:You'll have to format it to Fat32 if it's NTFS, it doesn't automatically do everything for you. Jeez.

Wait, why? Its the hardware that doesn't support it? I thought as long as you had XP you could use NFTS...

sniper_spike · Post by **sniper_spike** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:10 am

Oh, as you said P3 I assumed you had an earlier OS. Yah it should work perfectly.

collingall2005 · Post by **collingall2005** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:16 pm

XP will ask you to re-register your OS, m$ just wants to make shure that they get all the money they can get. I put my XP hd into my nes pc to test it, it worked, but it was way to slow so i decided to go with win 2000.

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:02 pm

They wont want you to reregister it. As they use your HDD serial number to validate your pc.

collingall2005 · Post by **collingall2005** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:29 pm

sam fisher wrote:They wont want you to reregister it. As they use your HDD serial number to validate your pc.

that is what M$ made me do, when it booted up xp said that major hardware changes had occured and that i had three days to re-register it or xp wont work anymore, and three days later it would only let me into the reregister menu