old hard drive - new computer

I'm still buying PATA drives, also called ATA/133 drives. My motherboard won't support SATA drives.

Look on the drive and it should say. If it's a 40 GB drive, I'd say it's probably the older PATA.

Otherwise, the bsmith gave you a good answer.

1 [i]Lay off the booze and just stop!

He made it perfectly clear from the begin this is a storage only drive, no Windows involved. Stop your insults on MS.

Your first paragraph is worthless.[/i] And what is worthless lets look see shall we?

[u]This depends on several things
Including the M'Board Chip Set. If this is an IDE Drive and the Chip Set sets every IDE Drive to the Default drive yes you will be able to install it and use it but you will be unable to boot Windows as the IDE drive being the default drive will lack the files that tell the computer where to find the Windows load files.[/u]

Can you please explain how a Hardware Issue impacts on any form of software? As this is exactly what is happening here if there is a PATA Drive involved it's purely hardware and not at all related to the loaded copy of Windows.

2[i] Your third paragraph is way off base, totally wrong, and misleading. Geez, at least mention the BIOS and how he could change that boot order.[/i]

and it was what exactly?

[u]If you have a IDE/PATA drive it would be better to mount in into a USB Caddy and use it from there as that way there will be no possible problems with the Boot Order and you will not have any problems getting the computer to boot. However if you do use it inside the computer you may be forced to perform a In Place Install to get the unit working again the directions are here for this

http://tinyurl.com/g4bv8[/u]

Do you even understand the difference between Hardware and software issues? Apparently not by your reply here.

3 [i]Your next paragraph is just another cheap HAL slam on MS. Get over yourself.[/i]

and it was this

[u]And while it will keep most of your software load working it will make it necessary to reactivate the version of Windows that you have and install any Service Packs and Patches that have been released since your copy of Windows was released.[/u]

Please explain what's wrong with this as after any In Place Install of any OS doesn't matter which one all patches and any other items have to be reapplied but you do tend to keep your base installed software load running. Of course you are welcome to disagree with this statement but you are also disagreeing with M$ Technical so obviously this can not be incorrect.

3 [i]Your last paragraph would only make sense assuming the differences between FAT, FAT32, and NTFS but you once again fail to explain, assume alot and mislead with FUD.[/i]

[u]As you haven't made any mention of which version of Windows you are using if it's Vista the drive may be unreadable to that OS as well.[/u]

And the problem is exactly what? It's a accepted [b]FACT by M$[/b] that Vista is sometimes unable to read NTFS Partitions that it has not created. Again straight from M$ Technical Support so are you calling M$ liars as well?

Everything above is perfectly correct and you are the fool for not knowing any better.

You have better stop smoking the M$ Marketing hype and look at real life as you are completely out of control and have lost the plot so much that you are not even aware of what is happening in real life.

[b][i][u]Tis better to shut up and allow people to think that you have some brains than to open your stupid mouth and prove beyond any doubt that you are an Idiot![/b][/u][/i]

Col

My village was wondering where we'd misplaced our idiot.

If HAL's response is of no value (most unlikely), isn't that up to canehdian to decide? After all, it's his question.

What exactly did HAL say that you interpreted as insulting Microsoft?

I can't figure you out, dude. Sometimes you're a source of useful information and worth reading. Other times you pull out the blowtorches and go off on a rant like this one. You haven't been ordering supplements from www.jekyllandhyde.com, have you?

Hardware issue that he was totally incapable of understanding. Actually the above post of mine applies to any OS and I only made mention of Windows because that was asked about but it equally applies to Linux, BSD, Solaris, Unix or whatever it is a straight hardware issue with most of the question except the bit about Vista not liking to read some HDD's that if hasn't formatted.

Again a fairly common question here if one cares to look but unfortunately Rickk is incapable of reading anything without putting his own agenda onto what he reads and then reacting like the spoilt little brat that he wants to be know as. :D

What I did like was his rabid defense of Vista and then his back flip where he explained why he wouldn't insist on using Vista at work because it wouldn't do the required job. Seems that when he says something not so nice about M$ it's A OK but anyone else is just out bashing M$ at every opportunity. Says quite a lot about hie beliefs Doesn't it?

Col