anyone know about emachines?
 

i am dumping my emachine,but i want to keep the hard drive,is that posable? :helpme

We've bought two of them.....they're still running three years later, so I don't know if you can or not.

I would think you can...

those things were the biggest train wreck to hit the industry.... glad it turned out well 4 ya. to answer your question, you'd have to pop open the box & see what u can do... i'd just get all my data, clean'em & dump'em if i were u.

i want to save the OS,the hard drive is a 40 gb 7200 rpm western digital and it has windows xp on it.i built a new computer and its not booting.i dont know if its the way i put it together or if the harddrive wont work because its out of the emachine and maybe they put something on it so i cant switch it out.

what i am trying to put it in a raid max scorpio series case with a DFI laparty ut nF3 250 GB mother board with an AMD Atholon 64 prossesor.

any ideas?

should work, Make sure the jumpers are correct, check the bios to make sure its detecting it, Never heard of any computer company locking a harddrive, Only seen xbox's have that where the harddrive is locked hehe

heh emachines fucking suck ass. slow ass pos, poorly built. I don't see why you couldn't use the hard drive out of it though.

Yeah, there shouldn't be a problem, Like MrC said, check your cmos settings make sure they're set in normal and not clear. A lot of boards are shipped with the clear settings. Usualy pins 1 and 2 are normal. 2 and 3 are clear. Are you getting power?

The new e-machines are a lot better. Good price for a kids first computer. Gateway owns them now and the quality control has gone way up.

i bought some emachines 3 years ago, horrible machines.

im getting power,it just wont boot up.im checking the jumpers right now

you can keep the hd, just change the jumpers and set it as a slave
i wouldnt boot it as the primary os drive, it'll probably crash

for true

set to normal,any other ideas?

just thought i'd mention, i have my friends emachine sitting here, its a POS. it has a faster CPU than my machine (athlon xp 2400+) but only has 128mb and a really shitty graphics card, runs slower than my old PII 350mhz. i think she bought it for $400 new. are all of them this shitty? :Oh crap

yeah, they're all shitty. dell has new systems for under $300 so get one and use the emachine as a boat anchor

this is the first emachine ive owned,its kinda slow.thats why i desided to build a compurter

well the HDD wont work if the processors are different or if so thats a new one to me

Okay, if everything is connected right, cmos, hard drive jumpers set correctly, (Master I'm assuming) Hard drive is connected to IDE 1. There are some other possibilities why it won't boot. If you can get into your bios settings, Make sure the motherboard is recognizing the drive. make sure that your drive is in the program's boot sequence. You may have to tell the BIOS to search for hard drives (it should do so automatically).

Here's another possibility: Your power supply may be inadequate for the new motherboard. Check your motherboard's documentation to find the wattage the vendor recommends.

If the power supply checks out, boot your machine from a floppy to see whether all the necessary files are accessible on your hard drive. If it uses the FAT32 file format, any bootable floppy disk will do. If it uses the NTFS format, download (on another system) NTFS.com's free NTFS Boot Disk utility , which will prepare a bootable floppy that can read NTFS hard drives.

If you can access the data on your hard drive but you still can't boot from it, you may have to suck it up and reinstall the bastard. :(

I hope this helps and keep us updated.

everything is good there,still checking on the rest.power suply is 500 watts and the board only needs 300 watts.

I tried a couple of emachines and have had more trouble with those boxes than a whole room of Dells.

I'd never buy another one.

Install a fresh copy of Windows on a different hard drive and use the old one as a slave to get the data off of it. Unless all your components are the same or similar, Windows will probably not boot or will BSOD constantly.

If both HD's in the machine's File system are NTFS then it will not boot. You can ghost the drive, but its a pain in my opinion.

Nevermind..I am sleepy..

You will not be able to read the files once it boots..

but I would say you definitely have the jumper set wrong

jumper on the hard drive is set the same way it was in the emachine,infact im useing right now.the jumpers on the mother board are set to normal.

correct me if i'm wrong but werent they initially made of almost all refurbished parts?

whats that got to do with the question?

emachines are the crack heads of the computer society.

The chance of you being able to plug the HD into the new computer and use the OS is about slim to none

I'm not your fucking tech support, I asked my own question on a thread called "anyone know about emachines?"

let me guess, their help hotline called you a cheap fuck and hung up on you?

That old hd
 

will only work as a slave...

It was formatted for your emachine and not your current system... I had this when I tried an old HP formatted hd in a new pc a couple of years ago..

You may also have trouble ghosting some ofyour .exe files across as some add parts of their scripts to the registry.. Any programmes that required a re-boot after being installed are the ones that will give you the problem....


For some unknown reason I started a new thread instead of replying here... DUH

cheap?i spent twice ass much on my new comp as i would have on anouther emachine.

All I know is.. I would never buy one

there is no "normal" jumper setting that I am aware of.

You must make sure you set the Main boot disc..be it the one from Emachines or the new computer you built...as the "Mater w/slave present"

and you need to set the 2nd drive as "Slave" do not use Cable Select! "CS"

and like i said in my sleepy state, you will be able to see the drive but will not be able to get any of the files off it if the file sytem is NTFS.

pins 1 and 2 are for noraml and 3 and 4 are for clear cmos data.im not trying to use the harddrive as a slave,i was trying to use it as a master so i wouldnt have to go out and buy a new hard drive and windows xp.i desided im just going to buy the new hardrive and OS because i saw a 10,000 rpm serial hd on sale at frys.

Yes, try to set it to slave, and if that does not work remove the jumper completely from the HD, I do that for most of mine...Never from an Emachine but I rebuild computers...

i'm sure you can take it right out and keep using it. i got my emachine almost 3 years ago, and the thing still runs like a champ. i barely use it anymore, but when i do, it's still solid.

This is the Setting the works best for me for a single WD Hard Drive NOT installed with the current mother board, (used HD) and ONLY ONE HD present.
or remove the jumper completely!!!!

http://www.tnacash.com/examples/slave.jpg