My old system soon to be redundant runs a 13G IDE drive off an Asus P2B mobo.
I just had this thought - could I connect this drive to the IDE connector on my new Asus P5Q mobo and therefore have access to everything on the drive?
Why ? well it saves me backing everything up to move files over.
If connector compatible - my only unknown is whether XP would understand the format on the old hd, but hopefully one of you experts might know
If not format compatible - and therefore not appropriate to instal for copying old files over - what about the ability to just reformat it after removing wanted stuff?
If all thats a 2x nono, I will connect it to our router and just copy stuff over, but I thought the above was interesting.
Alan.
PS forgot to mention old pc running W98.