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To: Jeff Lins who wrote (9511)	12/11/1998 7:33:00 AM
From: Gopher Broke	Respond to of 16960

OT: Jeff, it is a piece of cake to stick any old IDE hard drive in a new PC. Just whip off the cover, plug the power and IDE cable into the drive and you are ready to go. Drive re-lettering is handled automatically. Just check that the master/slave setting on the drive (usually a jumper on the back of the drive by the cable connector) matches the new PC. e.g. If you are connecting to the same IDE cable as the primary drive then it must be jumpered as a secondary. If you are using a new cable (to the second motherboard IDE connection) then it should be jumpered as a primary. I would also check the BIOS on your new PC has that IDE slot enabled and configured for autodetect - that is usually the default setting but it may have been changed. I generally just temporarily stack the old drive on top of the disk compartment rather than wasting time screwing it into a slot. And don't worry about plugging the IDE cable in the wrong way round or having the wrong jumper setting initially - it won't work, but it wont break anything either :o)