How to Transfer hard drive from a pentium 3 computer to a celeron comp? Windows wont start.?
The hard drive from the pentium 3 is 80GB but the one from the celeron is only 30GB. Do i have to reformat the hard drive from the pentium 3 first??? for it to work on my celeron computer? thanks.
thanks!! i think they have different chipset because it it wont load windows. the IT guy said that i should reinstall the windows but im afraid that some of the files will be corrupted..
maybe ill just try the software, maxblast.. thanks a lot!! ill keep you guys posted, i hope i dont mess up my computer.
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if you are going to use 2 HHD in the celetron computer, then you just have to connect the 80 GB HDD as a secondary drive in the celeron computer. Your system drive will be 30GB capacity and you can use the 80GB HHD as a data storage Drive.
This is a good practice bcos, if your computer OS is corrupted you just need to reinstall the OS in the system drive namely your 30BG HDD. Your data is intact in the second HDD namely your 80GB HHD. Your data is safe.
if you are going to swap the HHD where by the celeron going to use the 80GB with window OS install, you can just connect the 80GB HDD to the primary connection and boot up the system. This will work fine if the 2 computer having the same chipset. (eg : both must be Intel Chipset or both must be Via Chipset)
Ha Haaaah !!! You have found the secret glitch. Windows is PC specific. When it installs, it logs the computer ID ( CPU or BIOS, don’t know for sure ) and when windows registers, it authenticates the OS for that PC. Now when you try to use on another PC, it treats it as an invalid OS. If you are trying to transfer the copy of windows from 1 PC to another, you cannot if the OS is an “OEM” version. It will tell you on the CD if you have it, and if it came pre-installed, 99.9% chance it is OEM… Now retail software can be legally transferred to another PC, and Microsoft may try to give you a hard time, but as long as it is only on 1 PC at a time, they can’t stop you! For that you need to do a new install of windows onto whichever HDD you want to have as your MAIN Drive. That will get you what you want.
If the smaller HDD has a valid windows, then you can GHOST that HDD to the new 80GB drive, and you are all set. There is a FREE ghosting software under MAXBLAST 5 ( at the maxtor web site ).
Hope this helps…