We've got two PCs with different motherboards, graphic cards, HDDs, etc.
- PC1: HDD1: Maxtor - SATA - 240 GB - Win XP - Partition Drives C,D,E
- PC2: HDD2: Samsung - SATA - 500 GB - Win 7 - Partition Drives C,D,E,F
Both HDDs have been bought almost 5 years ago.
Now I want to have the both hard drives in PC1.
I mounted and screwed the HDD2 on PC1 and plugged its SATA and power cables. (I'm almost sure I plugged them correctly.) When I booted the system, I entered the BIOS settings and set the first booting priority to HDD1 (win XP).
The Problem:
When the win XP loads (from HDD1), the desktop appears and the mouse is working. But when I start to click/right-click on anything, the mouse goes to the waiting symbol (sand glass) and nothing works! I can still move the mouse, but no clicks, nothing works. I wait for long, but no help. So I have to reset the PC physically. And then again and again this happens on each load of win XP. The only solution is to remove the HDD2 cables, which brings the system to the normal working conditions. (But again when I re-plug the HDD2 cables, again the win XP doesn't work, and freezes on desktop.)
I want to have access to the HDD2's files and documents from within the win XP.
Now what should I do?
Any help would be highly appreciated.