Solved! can you boot from a hard drive of another pc into another pc

[dangerEye]

I have an old hard drive (PATA) of Hitachi I wondered if it was working because I didn't used it for a long time, so I gave it to my friend who have desktop, he removed his hardisk and put mine instead. He told me that it did not boot and made beeping noise. I think it would not have booted because of the difference in the configuration of my old pc and his new pc, Is my hard drive actually dead?

edit: hard disk was not beeping it was actually making sound of clicking and it was also heating up

thanks

 

[rgd1101]

don't boot from it. try access it as data?

 

[dangerEye]

don't boot from it. try access it as data?

I don't have the equipment for it. I was asking that it would have not booted because of the change in configuration of his and my pc, am I right

 

[Wolfshadw]

Probably not, but if your friend's system has a PATA/IDE port, it's not THAT new.
Generally speaking, you're correct in that taking a boot drive from one system to another won't likely work, but that doesn't mean the drive is dead.

-Wolf sends

 

[dangerEye]

Probably not, but if your friend's system has a PATA/IDE port, it's not THAT new.
Generally speaking, you're correct in that taking a boot drive from one system to another won't likely work, but that doesn't mean the drive is dead.

-Wolf sends

No he had a converter. Thanks I also want to know why was my hard disk beeping?Please assist me

thankyou

 

[Wolfshadw]

Was it beeping in your computer or in his computer?

-Wolf sends

 

[dangerEye]

Was it beeping in your computer or in his computer?

-Wolf sends

In hard disk, it was sounding like clicking, and hard disk was also heating up. Just confirmed from him there was clicking only not beeping sorry

thanks

 

[hang-the-9]

No he had a converter. Thanks I also want to know why was my hard disk beeping?Please assist me

thankyou

Using a converter adds another point of failure, it may be the converter that is not working properly. If you were trying to get the data off it, you can try another converter, or have someone with the right tools look at it. If you don't need the data, it's useless using such an old disk now considering how cheap newer drives are.

 

[dangerEye]

Using a converter adds another point of failure, it may be the converter that is not working properly. If you were trying to get the data off it, you can try another converter, or have someone with the right tools look at it. If you don't need the data, it's useless using such an old disk now considering how cheap newer drives are.

Ohh thankyou

 

[Wolfshadw]

In hard disk, it was sounding like clicking, and hard disk was also heating up. Just confirmed from him there was clicking only not beeping sorry

thanks

Yeah. BIG difference between "beeping" and "clicking".
Drive is likely dead.

-Wolf sends

 

[dangerEye]

Yeah. BIG difference between "beeping" and "clicking".
Drive is likely dead.

-Wolf sends

ohh Thanks