Q: I have an eMachine 466is with Win98 installed. Im going to build a computer and was wondering if the hard drive and I use the recovery disk that came with your computer, will work with the new system? Obviously there will be some apps, drivers, etc. I do not need the new system, but I can remove it. Would it be possible to take the hard drive from the eMachine, install the new system, and boot?
Best Answer: Yes the simplest thing of course is just to by the same motherboard. If you buy one that uses the same chipset you can probably do a repair install and be all set. however this could be a good time to upgrade and put the drive in as a second drive to pull the data off. Most new systems use SATA drive and older systems use IDE / PATA drives they are no compatable but many newer systems do support both.
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Re:Its easy…before you start goto control panel and double click, then select add/remove software and then select startup disk. Follow the direction to creating an emergency startup disk. start your old computer up with the emergency startup disk in the FDD. You'll be asked whether to startup with CD support or not..choose not to have CD support. After bootup type "format c:" without the quotes. You now have a formatted hard drive.
You can now place the formatted drive in your newly built computer. When you ready to fire it up and load an OS , simply insert your emergency startup disk in the FDD and choose the option for CD support. Put your OS CD in the CDrom and then go to that drive(more than likely it will be the E: drive) and simply type "setup" without the quotes. This will install your OS…
thats it… and I hope it helps
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Re:You could just delete the system devices in your device manager,
shut down, remove the harddrive, install it in your new computer,
boot it up. It should see your new devices and install (from C/D)
drivers for them…….Greg
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Re:That is what I expected, but just wanted to know what steps to take before I tried it. Thanks a bunch for all the replies!
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Re:As everyone else said – the hard drive will work fine, but definitely don't use the restore disc. The computer you are building will probably have entirely different parts than your eMachine, and using the restore disc will not make it easier on you. I'd just install a fresh version of Windows and start from scratch rather than try to use the restore disc.
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Re:I've tried to use my old Gateway restore disks when building a new system, and they won't work. Definently, don't use the restore disks.
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Re:You'll complicate matters if you use the restore disk, if you can get it to work in the first place. The hard disk will work fine after the format.
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Re:You could use it but don't use restore disk.
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