Question - Installing Hard Drive Into New Barebones System

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Just bought my wife an AMD XP1700 barebones system. Our other computer (PIII 700) uses removeable hard drives. One for playing/internet and one for recording. When I install her hard drive into the new barebones system and go through BIOS setup will it be up and running? After installing memory, etc of course. It seems like many years ago I did this (old 386SX) and ended up having to format the hard drive and start from scratch. I just don't want any surprises - she'll be standing over me waiting to use the internet :D

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Set to autodetect it should detect the drive fine. If there are major hardware differences between the 2 puters( and theres is likely to be, between a p3.700 and an xp1700) expect problems when windows loads the 1st time. You might try removing PCI bus under System devices in device manager RIGHT before you take the drive out, so when it boots the 1st time on new comp it will detect all the hardware,rather than trying to use the old config.
 
What os are you using? On the new PC

What deadleafecho said, just back up first get ready for a possible stop error.
 
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I'm still using 98SE right now. That's what is on the hard drive. At some point I'll probably go to Windows XP but the 98SE does what I need it to do.

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Same os, better but the hardware changes are not going to make it easy, you may want to network the two pcs first or back up to disk the info you need then just add in the second drive, install it / delete part/ create part/load OS. Then put what you want back on it.
 
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