re: Moving stuff from Windows 98 to Vista
Sunday, July 15, 2007 at 3:55 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(1069 messages posted)
I assumed both drives were on an IDE cable. From what you say, they've come up with
some new arrangement that I hadn't heard about. There used to be a change in hard
drive connection systems every 2 years (MSM and RLL were a couple old ones) but things
have been standardized on IDE for about 10 years. There is a red wire on the IDE
cable which is pin #1. You also have to connect one of the power connectors.
Alternately, since motherboards have 2 IDE connectors, I figured you could use one
of those.
Alternately, the CD is on an IDE cable you could use that one since you won't need
it during the operation.
I also forgot to say that there is almost always a jumper diagram on a hard drive
which shows how to configure it as a slave drive. In one case while the sticker
clearly showed how to identify jumper #1 and which was the slave jumper, the sticker
was oriented backwards which was counterintuitive. That gave me a headache and I
eventually copied out the sticker in the visually, rather than just logically, correct
order.
Another hint: If you ever see an old 486 computer thrown out, there are a few recoverable
items.
- The fan from the power supply has the same bolt pattern as any cooling fan --
that was standardized 20 years ago. And it's a $6 item from a store.
- There are 1 to 2 dozen jumpers on a 486 system. Some of them in visible colors
other than black. Take them all out and put them in a jar somewhere. Then you never
have to fear dropping a jumper and losing it.
- Get all those mounting screws. I don't know what the thread specs are for them
-- metric or Mongolian or whatever. I just know that I have all I need in the jar
with the extra jumpers.
Good luck.
On Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 11:57 pm, Ken T wrote:
>I tried this method of attaching the old hard drive to the new Vista Quad-Core PC,
>but it looks as though the cables are not the same. Am I doing something wrong?
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>Thanks for the help!
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