Could I put my hard drive into my dad's computer without many problems?

[8BitLord]

My dad is giving me his comp and I want to keep all of my games and such, would it be a problem to use my hard-drive in his computer?

[Zolofto]

Yes. If it is a P-ATA (Big ol Ribbon cable that attaches to the backend of it), and uses a filesystem the destination PC can recognize. You can do that without any problems.

[odellus]

[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;27678777]Yes. If it is a P-ATA (Big ol Ribbon cable that attaches to the backend of it), and uses a filesystem the destination PC can recognize. You can do that without any problems.[/QUOTE]

And it would have to be PATA why?

[Ninja Duck]

[quote]Could I put my hard drive into my dad's computer without many problems?[/quote]

Sorry but this sounded sexual to me.

You'll need lube to get it in.

[Demache]

[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;27678777]Yes. If it is a P-ATA (Big ol Ribbon cable that attaches to the backend of it), and uses a filesystem the destination PC can recognize. You can do that without any problems.[/QUOTE]
Can be SATA too. I connected my laptop's hard drive to my desktop and it worked fine.

Although it tried booting the laptop's install of Ubuntu which obviously isn't going to work well when the laptop is a Core 2 Duo and my PC is an Athlon II X4.