I have a Dimension 8400.  It was down for almost 2 months until (thanks to the people on here) I changed the motherboard and hard drive.  I installed XP on it, downloaded the DSS, Chipset, and the other significant drivers.  What I wanted to know is can I use my original hard drive as a second drive?  I think I can still retrieve the information on it, but there was a problem with the boot sector (I would get a blue screen with the error code 0x0000007B) and it wouldn't boot when it was my primary drive.  Also, there was 1 time that the drive did get past the blue screen and the drive went into chkdsk and repaired some of the bad sectors.  I'm just worried that the drive has Windows XP components on it and I don't want them to conflict with each other (if that would be the case).  Please lead me in the right direction as always.  Thanks!!!

 

 

bubbalufagus

 

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Dell Dimension 8400 MCE

Microsoft Windows XP Media Center 2005 Edition

2GB RAM

250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)

Dual Drives: 48x CD-RW Drive + 16x DVD+/-RW w/dbl layer write capability

19 Inch 1905FP Dell Ultrasharp Digital Flat Panel Display

128 MB PCI Express x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon X300 SE

Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit ADVANCED HD Audio

56K PCI Data/Fax Modem

Dell 5650 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker System with Subwoofer

Dell Wireless Keyboard and Optical Mouse