Old computer to New

[focus]

I've been using an old Asus (P4) computer for awhile now and my friend gave me his Dell XPS.
I am having trouble connecting my hard-drives from the old computer to the new one.
My hard-drives from the old computer are:


Seagate (with jumper) <-- Running windows XP Pro
Barracuda 720.10
320 GBytes

Seagate
Barracuda ATA V
60 Gbytes


When it loads up it says.


drive 0 not found: Serial ATA, SATA-0
drive 3 not found: Serial ATA, SATA-0
drive 4 not found: Serial ATA, SATA-0
drive 5 not found: Serial ATA, SATA-0
drive 7 not found: Parallel ATA. PATA-1 (IDE Slave)


Strike the F1 Key to continue, F2 to run the setup ultility.


When i press F2 it says:

Error loading operation System.


Can anyone provide any insight on the issue?


Thanks in advance!

 

[conzone]

"Seagate (with jumper) "

and the jumper is in which position ? and for what ?

 

[Smith6612]

Computer isn't recognizing the drive. Are these both SATA disks, one SATA and other IDE, or both IDE? What positions are any jumpers put into? Need a little more detail.

 

[letapk]

Some more details would be useful in order to help you.

You need to determine whether the old disks are IDE or SATA. If they are IDE connect them to the IDE connector on the motherboard using IDE cables. If they are SATA, you need to use a SATA cable and connect them to the SATA connector on the motherboard.

Do you want to boot off the drives from the new PC and use the old disks for data storage? Or do you want to boot off the old disks? Decide this and configure the boot priority in the BIOS. The boot drive should be master, if it is IDE, so you need to set the jumper accordingly.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,
K. Patel