Using my Old Hard Drive as a Master Drive on my New Computer

[J0e]

Hi,

Anyone know if it's possible to use my Old Hard Drive as a Master drive
on my brand new computer?

Here's what happened:

My 2 year old emachine AMD Athon 2600 computer's motherboard died just
recently. So I just bought a emachine AMD Sempron 3100 computer very
soon after. I managed to get practically all of my files from my old computer
over to my new computer by setting the old hard drive up as a slave, and
plopping them over - but there's still some stuff (not in the form of files)
that I still want.

What I'm trying to do:

I'm just trying to retreive my Old Microsoft Outlook emails that I did
not backup before my 2 year old computer's motherboard died. I just
want to boot up my old hard drive, on my new computer, get into MS
Outlook, export my emails to some file, and get out.

What happens when I setup my old hard drive up as the master
on my new computer:

I get a "Disk boot failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter" error
message.

Anyone know how I can get by this error message?

Thanks in advance,


Joe

Note: The very first time that I setup my old hard drive as a master on my
new computer, I had the opportunity to "enter safe mode" or "boot up
normally," but I turned my computer off. I can no longer get to this point.

 

[Samstoned]

are they both ide drives
oem OS installs will not work with a diff motherboard
should try to put the old drive as slave and take possion of all the files and data
if you keep playing around you may corrupt or damage the new drive mbr /boot.ini file
warning on boot if you see a chkdsk prompt don't let it run

 

[J0e]

are they both ide drives
oem OS installs will not work with a diff motherboard
should try to put the old drive as slave and take possion of all the files and data
if you keep playing around you may corrupt or damage the new drive mbr /boot.ini file
warning on boot if you see a chkdsk prompt don't let it run

Thanks Samstoned - I will back off and not do anything.