Dell XPS Hard Drive installation help please.

[h0sepipe]

Okay so the deal is I bought a new Dell. I have an older hard drive that I bought from Seagate that has 160 gigs of good stuff I do not want to lose. So I took it out of the older computer, and already put it in my new Dell.

Well, turns out, they are using some sort of new technology with the plug-in port area, so it does not fit my old port. It is smaller, and I do not know what to do. anyone have any ideas? :skered:

[tuathal]

If this 160 gigs is all software, just use the transfer wizard to copy it over. Its under system tools/file and settings transfer wizard.

[simplechords]

How old is the hard-drive?

My guess is that the hard drive in your dell is SATA and doesn't used a IDe connection. If you only have one c.d drive, you should be able to hook it up the secondary connection on your c.d's ide cable.

[ElLocoTaco]

hmmm...simplechords will be right. A smaller plug will be SATA. You could verify simplechords idea by looking at the power-plug at your dell-hd.
It must be a smaller, flat plug. If that's so, its 1000000% SATA.