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Topic: HP Pavillion Hard Drive |
jolynyk
From:
Prince Albert Sask. Canada
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Posted 19 Nov 2006 1:00 pm |
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| I just bought an HP Pavillion 514n with Winows XP Home & all the recovery disks with certificate of authenticity from microsoft. The computer has a 60 gig hard drive with Windows home installed.. My old computer has a 200 gig Hard Drive with all my stuff on it & Windows XP Pro on it. Can I put this hard drive into the Pavillion as a second Hard Drive & leave XP Pro on it, or will this have to be reformatted with Windows home?? If I run Home edition on it can I do so & leave my files intact? |
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 19 Nov 2006 2:44 pm
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You add the hard drive, providing there are connections, etc interally for it.
However, XP must be activated and only on one computer. If you wanted to use XP Pro that you have on the second hard drive, you will have to reinstall it so that it picks up the hardware in the HP. Just running it from a previous installation will not work.
You could set up a dual boot system with either the original HP drive and XP Home or the second drive with XP Pro, although I don't know whay you would want to do that.
One note, the HP CD probably has a restore partition on it that will restore the PC to the original new Power Up condition. Even tho you have the restore CD's, I'd keep that partition. |
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jolynyk
From:
Prince Albert Sask. Canada
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 3:45 am
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thanks Jack... not sure if the HP has room for 2 drives yet..Just bought it & will recieve it this week.. if it doesn't have room, I guess I'll have to just put in the 200 gig, & reformat it to the pavillion..
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 6:01 am
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jolynyk,
If the HP doesn't have room, you can purchase an external usb cabnet/container for the 200 hd. I have one that I use for seldom used files, it saves time looking for the CDs they are normaly stored on. Usually about $20/$30.
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 9:59 am
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USB is the way to go...
makes for an easy life...there probably only a couple of gig 's worth of stuff thats worth saving anyway, the rest is probably programs and crud, kinda like whats on my hard drive  |
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jolynyk
From:
Prince Albert Sask. Canada
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 3:29 pm
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| Bill & Tony, are you referring to an external hard drive, or an adapter that my 200 gig internal drive will plug into.??will I still need a ribbon to plug into my hd, or does this adaptor you're talking about have a place to plug the hd into?? |
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 20 Nov 2006 3:43 pm
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The external drive enclosure will probably have a USB connector on the case, and a socket, possibly with a cable, to connect to your hard drive, inside the case.
There are other types of external enclosures, some already containing hard-drives, others empty, some for parallel IDE, some for SATA, SCSI, Firewire and USB 2.0. Find one that works with your new hard drive, plug it in to the case cables, plug the case USB cord into the computer, turn on the power to the enclosure, and you should be good to go.
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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jolynyk
From:
Prince Albert Sask. Canada
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Posted 21 Nov 2006 2:58 pm
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| Thanks Bill, I have to look for a 3 1/2" one.. There are some on flea bay.. |
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Gary Shepherd
From:
Fox, Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 23 Nov 2006 9:08 am
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So there's no confusion, the one listed in Bill's post is for 2.5" drives (like in a laptop). Most hard drives on the BIG computers are 3.5" (not 2.5").
gs
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 26 Nov 2006 5:17 pm
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oops,Sorry for the 2.5/3.5 confusion[on my part], I didn't notice the size, just the container.
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