I just bought a Compaq Presario SR2032x with a 200GB Hard Drive. I want to install the hard drive from my “old” Compaq Presario s6100nx in my new computer. Both are running Windows XP Home. I studdied up on the procedure before I opened the boxes and thought I would have no problem. Unfortunately the old Presario has a parallel ATA hard drive cable while the new one is installed with a serial ATA cabel. Not knowing what I am doing but making a logical assumption I used the old parallel cable and connected the blue side to the open blue spot in the new mother board and installed my old hard drive (connecting it to pins labeled slave) and set the jumper to slave and then powered her up. Unfortunatelly I got as far as the big red compaq and received a message that windows could not start up because of a new hardware installation. So I disconnected everything and have had no trouble starting the computer.
I really want to savethe info on the old hard drive. Any suggestions?