Is this possible?

[YASHARAHLA777]

Is it possible to put a hard drive out of a W5243 (model emachine) into a ET1831-07 (model emachine) as a secondary hard drive?

 

[hellokitty[hk]]

Yes .

 

[SNGX1275]

I would really love to just lock this thread at hellokitty[hk]'s response, but I won't. But I don't think there is anything else really to be said until YASH can elaborate, perhaps he doesn't need to, maybe all he wanted was a yes or no

 

[YASHARAHLA777]

YES!

All I wanted was a yes or no.

The mother board on my old Emachine (W5243) died about a year ago. And now I have a good deal on a newer Emachine (ET1831-07), so I'm thinking I should take the hard drive out of my old emachine and use it as a "secondary" hard drive in the new one. Hopefully it works though. Thanks!

 

[YASHARAHLA777]

another question

So is their anything special I need to do to put my old W5243 hard drive into my newer Emachine ET1831-07?

 

[captaincranky]

There is usually room for two HDDs in the drive cage of an eMachines desktop.

Are both of these HDD of the same connectivity? (IDE = 2" wide flat ribbon cable), (SATA = thin cable, less than 1/2 " wide)

The "boot order" in BIOS may have to be changed if. the machine tries to boot from the OS on the old drive.

 

[YASHARAHLA777]

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The hard drives look almost identical. The connections are the same and the hookups are basically the same. I might have to get some one to look at it for me tho. I'm not good with all the computer terms

 

[captaincranky]

Well, if you can't tell the difference between a flat ribbon cable 2 inches wide and a cable 1/2 inch wide, that might be the best approach

 

[Mirob]

They should both be SATA. As long as there is a extra SATA port on the motherboard and another power connector it will work. It's as easy as plugging them in (and if necessary correcting the boot order.)

 

[YASHARAHLA777]

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Actually I already had it hooked up.. The computer just doesn't seem to be reading it. It won't even boot up with the secondary harddrive in it.