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Running Programs from a 2nd/ 3rd HD

  • 05-08-2005 1:04pm
    #1
    Ay Cee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 905 ✭✭✭


    Howdy all,
    A friend of mine wants to take a HD from one of his PC's and install it as the 2nd or 3rd hard drive on another machine.

    I went to take a look at it last night. The drive he wants is a normal IDE connected drive but his new machine (Dell) the HD's are a totally different connection. I took the IDE cable from the other machine and put it in the new machine and it works fine. When I boot up the machine it comes up as another HD. Unfortunately and as I suspected a lot of the programs wouldn't run. When I disconnected the main (C) hard ldrive and left the old drive in, the machine wouldn't boot up. I went into the BIOS and it said something about the IDE drive not being recognised. Something like that anyway I can't remember to be honest.

    There's two things I can see to try. Which I'm not sure how to do.
    1: try and get the old drive "seen" so that it functions as the "C" drive or
    2: have the older hard drive run as the 2nd or 3rd hard drive and try and find away to run the programs from that drive.

    Can anybody offer any help/ suggestions?

    Thanks.


Comments

  • #2
    daywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭daywalker


    it sounds like the drives in the dell are SATA drives, where the SATA channel is the primary boot-up selection.

    the reason a lot of the programs wont run is most likely because the programs are attempting to access registry settings and dont know to look for these settings on other drive, he'll have to reinstall the programs from cds in order for the programs to work again.

    you could try disconnecting the new drives and try booting from the old hard drive on its own, not sure if this will work tho, Dell's can be fairly awkward with non-native configs


  • #3
    Gurgle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,064 ✭✭✭Gurgle


    Ay Cee wrote:
    a lot of the programs wouldn't run.

    These are program which were installed on the computer from whence this hdd came ?

    Of course they won't run, most programs install to the OS folder as well as to the program folder. If your not running the OS under which they were installed, they're not going to work.
    Ay Cee wrote:
    I went into the BIOS and it said something about the IDE drive not being recognised
    I take it that in windows the old IDE drive shows up OK.
    Was this the OS drive in the old system ?

    - And the drives in the Dell are almost certainly SATA.

    If you want to boot from the IDE drive, make sure its jumpered as master and connected to Primary IDE, set the BIOS to autodetect & set the boot sequence to IDE0 -> SATA -> whatever.


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