Piece of cake. Crack open the case, touch the chasis of the case first
before touching anything else. Detach the ribbon cable from the motherboard
and HD. Remove the drive. Set it to slave (jumpers) and connect it to your
other machine. Plug in the power (black/red/yellow) with molex plug (white).
You should be good to go.
Welcome to the life of hardware :-)
Alienware machine: $3780.00 shipped
Same components bought from NewEgg.com $1100.00 shipped.
Alienware case logo sticker bought on Ebay, $1.25.
Saving $2500.00, priceless. It pays to know your hardware.
Mike
> So, I'm a hardware newbie. I really, really don't like
> opening my machine. I have a machine I'm no longer using. It
> has a good 30 or 40 gig hard drive in it. Can I just deattach
> the ribbon from the... circuit board I assume, take the
> drive, set it to slave, attach the ribbon to my existing hard
> drive on my current computer, and be done with it? I also
> assume I'll have to connect power somehow.
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