How do you switch harddisks in a computer?

the original hard disk in this computer has windows 98 and little memory space, but the other hard disk i have from a previous computer has windows xp, microsoft office, many other programs and a lot more memory. already reconnected new hard disk, but will not do anything. what can i do to solve this?

How do you switch harddisks in a computer?
Hi,





Try doing this and it will work


It looks like the disk A ( WIN 98 ) is set as primary drive





in order to access your Disk B (Win XP)





take out both harddisks and on your Disk A next to the data bus there will be a small jumper try to switch it


the instructions will be on the Printed label on your disk....





set it to Slave





Now take your Disk B do the same as above but set it to Master.








now connect your Disk A to Secondary Data Bus.


and Disk B to Primary Data Bus





now restart your computer press f1 or f2, It will take you to BIOS then at the drives observe wether it is recognizing both drives and save the confoguration by pressing f10





restart the computer it will load xp..........