Most of hard drive have jumper settings. While jumper configuration is not required for SATA, it's necessary for EIDE, SCSI etc. Jumpers can be found next to to the power and data ports on the hard drive. Most manufactures will print next to each 2 contacts the configuration supported (Slace, Master etc).
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Yes you can transfer files between 2 hard drives. Make one hard drive a slave and another the master.
You get another memory storage device, such as an external hard drive, and you copy everything on your hard drive onto the external hard drive, and keep it safe. That way, if your hard drive crashes, then you can take it out, and plug your external hard drive in, and work from that.
Yes it will work fine.
Yes it should work in other PCs.
That would depend on certain variables, such as whether you were putting it on the same cable as the other drive. In IDE, you must have a Master drive on each channel. The second drive must be set to Slave. You were not clear in which drive you could not change the jumper. Assuming the drive in the computer is alone on the cable, it is set to Master, so your new drive must be either set to Slave and be placed on the same cable, or set as Master and placed on another cable.
Yes, you certainly can. Install Windows Me first on one of the hard drives. And after that install Vista on another hard drive. If you do reversed multiboot will not work. And you will have to edit boot.ini file manually which is not that easy.
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Restoring files on a hard drive can always be done as long as the hard drive itself isn't irrepairably damaged physically. If you are able to replace that hard drive with the hard drive in another computer and boot it up, you should be able to roll back the hard drive to a different restore point where everything was accessable.
the hard drive works by sticking gum inside of it
If it is on your hard drive then yes you can pop out your hard drive and play your content on another xbox. I always play COD WaW Nazi zombies maps on friends xbox that is on my hard drive.
Only if you have a hard drive. Otherwise they will not work without a hard drive.
Just put the hard drive in another computer as a secondary drive, and all the information should be visible. There are many ways to do this these days. Here's a few. 1) Get a new motherboard and make your computer work again 2) Put the drive in another computer as a secondary drive 3) Use a USB Drive Enclosure to connect the drive to another computer.