Does Hard Drive formatting matter with external enclosures?
I recently pulled the hard drive out of my old computer which used Windows 98 as its OS. I want to purchase an external enclosure in order to get the data onto my new Vista system, but wasn’t sure if the archaic OS would get in the way of this. The old computer is a total loss so this seems to be my best option if it works. Any help would be most appreciated.
you can get an enclosure, or a IDE to Sata adapter and put it internal.
you wont have to format it, you can plug it in once windows has started. and you will be able to access it to get all your stuff off, or what you want to get off, and then format it to a diffrent file format if you want.
if you do come into problems on startup, if could be that windows has set the new drive as first boot drive. just enter bios by pressing DEL on startup repeatedly dill a blue screen comes, DONT CHANGE ANYTHING HEAR! just go through the menu and find boot sequence, and change the sequence so that it boots from the internal drive, and disable the external booting. (BTW, if you ever have a booting issue, were you have to boot from Disc, you should change the dvd drive to be first boot in there).
November 1st, 2009 at 4:48 am
No, shouldn’t matter. New computer should be able to recognize it.
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November 1st, 2009 at 5:15 am
Why can’t you just add the old hard drive to the new computer and set it as a slave drive? You should be able to and then just transfer the files over as needed.
The files will still be the same, and you won’t be booting off the disc, so it shouldn’t matter that 98 is on there.
Am I wrong?
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November 1st, 2009 at 5:57 am
Yes, the formatting of the hard drive us still a factor.
Your Win 98 disk is probably formatted FAT32. Vista will read this OK, so reformatting is not necessary, but you will not be able to save any individual files larger than 4 GB to the drive.
The fact that the old OS is still on there won’t be a problem
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November 1st, 2009 at 6:15 am
you can get an enclosure, or a IDE to Sata adapter and put it internal.
you wont have to format it, you can plug it in once windows has started. and you will be able to access it to get all your stuff off, or what you want to get off, and then format it to a diffrent file format if you want.
if you do come into problems on startup, if could be that windows has set the new drive as first boot drive. just enter bios by pressing DEL on startup repeatedly dill a blue screen comes, DONT CHANGE ANYTHING HEAR! just go through the menu and find boot sequence, and change the sequence so that it boots from the internal drive, and disable the external booting. (BTW, if you ever have a booting issue, were you have to boot from Disc, you should change the dvd drive to be first boot in there).
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