I bought a new computer and I would like to move the 30G slave drive from my old pc to the new one. tHE NEW MASTER IS NTFS. Can it be done? Any ideas?
murphy

There should be no intrinsic problem as long as both drives are jumpered correctly and the slave put onto the middle ide connector. Jumpering the drives as Cable Select is often the easiest configuration on a modern PC using 80wire ribbon cables.

I have presumed that the current HDD (the new master) is running an OS such as WinXP on a single C: partition formatted as NTFS and that there are only unhidden FAT or NTFS partitions on the HDD you are going to add to the new computer as a slaved HDD.

Thanks Paul.
Yes , new PC runs on XP (2).
What I forgot to ask was, will the data on the slave transfer cleanly?
Murphy

If the new computer has the programs to read datafiles on the old drive, you should have no problems. WinXP will read both NTFS and FAT32 partitions.

What is on the slave drive and how was it put there? Was it once used as a master? Is there an active primary partition on it?

I use multiple drives and I install programs with the file location function if available and put some programs on the slave but the registry on the master tells Windows where to look or run the program from.

If your slave drive has anything similar, with no registry entry to control the program, the files will be wasted space unless you uninstall or delete them and reinstall the program to the same location.

But if it's just for data there'll be no problem at all. ;)

Thanks Fruss Tray Ted

Drive content is data put there with commercial software. It was never a master and has no OS. It is a WDC drive. And I USED their tools to set the drive up.
Will the bios on the new PC see the slave, or do I have to use the same tools to set up the slave on the new PC.

to use the same tools which tools?

As long as the jumpering and connections are OK then unless the drive is too large for the BIOS to "see it" there should be no problem with recognition. 30 gig is not huge by todays standards and if the master is already a large drive this is most unlikely to cause any problems.

Once you attach the drive go into the BIOS and see if it is recognised; that should give you the definitive answer.