Slave drive with windows on it...

Could I use my old hard drive that has windows installed on it as a slave drive in my new pc? If so, what would I set the jumper to? (This would be my second slave drive)

Slave drive with windows on it...
You should be able to. Just check that boot priority is correct in BIOS. Jumper should be on slave but may work on automatic. If it's an old drive though, it will probably run slower than your other drive and you could see some performance loss. Best to run Windows off your fastest drive as master.Slave drive with windows on it...
Well I'm getting a brand new hard drive to install windows on. The old drive is only like 2 yrs old and it's SATA. See the problem is, I bought a prebuilt Compaq PC, so it didn't come with a backup disk or anything. So when I try to reformat I get an error after the boot from disk screen
That won't work. A windows installed for another PC won't work on a PC with different hardware. In most cases it won't even boot. Note: SATA doesn't have master/slave settings. You just have 1 SATA disk per SATA slot, and SATA slots follow a specific layout order.
So I should **** c: before I install it in the new pc? And what do you mean it has a specific order? Should I leave the jumper in the 2nd slot? Or do I leave it out?Wait, why is f0rmat being censored?
Oh and the old hard drive was from a prebuilt Compaq. I still have the case that has the windows key on it, is there anyway I can completely reformat it without buying a new windows xp key (legally)? It didn't come with any backup discs or anything, but there is a recovery partition, but I heard using that doesn't completely reinstall windows.
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almay