i have one pc w/ a bad harddrive and one with a working harddrive.  how do i move the good hd to the other PC?
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do not listen to this guy above me . my answer is a thecnitian
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did u install an operating system or not yet ?\n\nif yes, then open "My Computer" if u use windows operating system and right click on each drive and chose properties.\n\nif no, then the easiest way is to plug ur hard drive to another pc which has an operating system and do the same\n\n\ngood luck mate.. ;)
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you should use a laptop coverter to install as a slave on a nother computer.\n\nhttp://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD-108&cat=HDD\n\nthen you might need a data recovery software. here is a good free one it is called PC Inspector File Recovery\n\nhttp://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html
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The best way is to copy all of the data you wish to keep onto removable storage devices such as CD's or onto another computer... then install the 2nd hard drive as master (change the jumper settings and whatnot) and install your operating system onto it. Your OS has to be on the master drive. http://www.lifehacker.com/software/feature/how-to-install-a-hard-drive-137179.php you'll have to read into it if you dont know what you're doing.
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just move the file into the new HD... then open it... make sure it works... then delete the file from your master HD...
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You will have to take the hard drive out and buy a IDE USB adapter for it, then simply connect the USB wire that comes out of the adapter to another running computer and transfer files.
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You could always take out the hard drive and install it into your new computer as a slave drive, hopefully the drive isn't fried but if it isn't you will be able to explore the drive and drag any files wanted onto your new drive. \nIf the drive is in good condition, you can then reformat the drive and keep the drive as a slave for your new computer
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Back up her files by connecting her hard drive to another comp wth a workable OS taking her HD as the slave.Then format er drive and reinstall the OS
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there is no easy way of doing this. you have 2 options. 1.  take you computer to a shop and ask them to transfer you hard drive to DVD or CD. or 2. you can remove the drive from your lap top buy and external hard drive case for a small hard drive (laptop hard drive) install your hard drive into the case and then connect it to your new PC and transfer the files that way.
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try make the short circuited HDD as a secondary drive and use another good HDD as a primary drive. then boot up your system, select my computer then open the D drive which will be the short circuited drive.
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If your old HDD has an operating system on it you dont want to transfer it ALL to a new computer as chances are the drivers will be different and it wont boot. if you are going to transfer the info to a new HDD that you are replacing for the old one use norton ghost. if you just want to add the old drive as a slave reset the jumper on the back of the drive I assume it is ATA not SATA and put it in the new case on the slave connector of the cable, make sure the new computer HDD is set as master NOT CS, now if you have SATA on the new machine, and you have 2 optic disks CD  and DVD you may need to buy a PCI card that has another ata connector so that you can install 3 ata devices, once installed delete the operating system on the slave
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The configuration for master/slave is based on  a jumper on the back of the hard drive.  Generally there's a few pins, and somewhere on the drive it will tell you which pins to put the jumper on to make it master.\n\nHowever, the hard drive from computer A (bad pc, good hd) should already be master (or set to cable select).  So, when you put it into computer B (good pc, bad hd), connect the good hd to the same IDE cable connecter that computer B's bad hard drive was using and you should be good.  \n\nBecause, whether the moved hard drive is set to Master or Cable Select, you've solved both by using the master connector on the IDE cable in computer B.
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If you have access to another computer you should be able to open the case and remove the hard drive, then use an adapter cable to connect the drive to the second computer as a slaved drive. You may have to change a jumper setting on the drives so the new system bios will know which drive is the master and which is the slave. On older systems, you may have to manually detect the newly slaved drive correctly. For this you may need to get manufacturers settings for the laptop drive, so look on it's label for Manufacturer's name and model number, etc. Look up their website and look under support for the correct settings for the correct number of heads, cylinders, and sectors, for your model, or call Compaq and see if they have these settings. Once the laptop drive is detected in the other computer's bios, you should be able to boot up and "see" another drive. Once you can, you can copy the drive's contents and burn them onto a CD, (with the proper software and equipment.) You can just recover precious files, if you have limited drive space and/or no CD-Rom or DVD-Rom burner. Good Luck! : )\n\nCalico.Kitty
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Here is the solution:\n\n1.Open My Computer.\n2.Right-click on the HDD and select properties.
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bad hdd, or you don't have the proper drivers, or it's not comnpatible with those systems
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Don't be so much worried get a good hard disk format it by using your OS if it is windows you will right click on your my computer and select manage option and hard disk tab and then you  will have a column there which will show the new hard disk activate it
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Using a program such as Partition Magic you can accomplish your goal. Bad news though, Many times people lose all their data when attempting to do what you are talking about.  Partition Magic if used correctly will not do that.  Using this program if you are not computer saavy could be a disaster.  A computer shop should be able to do it for you at a cost of 25 to 50 dollars.\n\nPerhaps you should just tranfer most of your files and programs to the D: drive.\n\nHave a Great Day