Old hard drive to new computer

[jaydj]

Hi folks,
Is it possible to transfer an old hard drive into my new computer tower?
Its from my old tower (windows98) my new computer has a hard drive already (windows 2000)
Is it just a matter of connecting the plugs on the back?
Do i need to format it?
Thanks for your help as im not great with computers
cheers

[ChuckFickens]

Pretty much yes....

You may have to change a little jumper on the hard drive. this is because each cable you can connect a hard drive (or CD drive) to can support two devices, one is a master and one is a slave (don't take any notice of the names, it really doesn't matter which is which most the time)

So for example if you already have one drive on the cable that will be the master so you'd have to set the second drive to be the slave else it wont be recognised.

this is what the jumpers look like, you just pull it off and put it back over a different pair of pins

http://techpaul.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/ju mper.jpg

There is normally a little picture on the drive somewhere that says what pins to put the jumper across for each setting

something like this though (will be different for your drive)

http://bugclub.org/sig-tinkers.html

[jaydj]

Thank you very much ChuckFickens