Hard Drives??

Im trying to grt something off my old HDD. Is there a way to connect it through my D drive.
i ask this caz a tech friend of mine formated my PC awhile ago and he put all the stuff i wanted of old HDD on another HDD.he did this by connecting his HDD in my D drive. i dunno what brand HDD he has and i can't ask caz he has moved away.

so im asking do HDDs hav to be same brand to connect into D drive??

PS. i tryed wid another friends HDD but it said the HDD's were incompatable.

if u uderstand what i mean plz post

Quote from MoJo:
so im asking do HDDs hav to be same brand to connect into D drive??

If you mean using two hard drives in the same computer, no they dont have to be the same brand. Just make sure they're set up right. Eg jumpers cables etc

the way i did it was i put all the cables that were in the D drive in the HDD
iz dat right? :?

Make sure there aren't any conflicting ummm, (cant think of the word) thingy's. Like both hard drives being set to primary master etc.

yer i put second drive on slave

ur not making much sense...what is your D Drive...cos all that is, is a letter to define parts of your computer..it could be a HDD a CD, CDRW etc etc...
if you mean two hard drives then make sure the one you are copying to is the primary.

the one you are copying from must be set to slave.

it should let you copy across from there, i've done this before and it works no probs...

i also 'think' they have to be on the same IDE cable but i'm not sure...never tried it on separate IDE cables...:|

let us know what happens

Just make sure neither of them are Seagates.

Once you connect them together, also don't forget to set them up in the BIOS.

yep it worked all good
thanks yall :D