Swopping primary/secondary HDs between machines

[peter]

I've got two PCs Ethernetted together in what I've been told this is a
client/server setup, altho it looks peer to peer to me. Anyway, the
server is a newly bought used P3 1GHz with a 40GB HD under win 2003
Server. The client is a four year old 233MHz Celeron with two HDs (10
& 20 GB) running XP SP2 .

I'm going to be developing Excel VBA macros for the internet. The only
problem I have now is that I have to limit the size of the
spreadsheets. I am going to try upgrading the mother board to a used
P4, if I can get one -- retailers don't sell them here in Toronto.

What I want to do right now is swap the secondary drive on the
Celeron/client with the primary drive on the server without losing any
data from the client -- the server i don't care about. I've copied the
data from the Celeron to the P4 and want to keep it there when it's
moved back.

I assume the only drive from the P4 will become a secondary on the
Celeron, but I'm wondering if this will be a problem -- will it lose
all its data in the install process? Apparently it used to be this
way, in DOS days.

Do I have to do anything weird to install these drives?

Just as a matter of interest, is it very difficult to restore data
after doing an FDISK? I worked for a two-bit consulting company that
"formatted" some systems from a hospital with lots of sensitive patient
data just by doing FDISKs; they were then sold. It seems to me the
data is still all there and shouldn't be too hard to access.

Thanks,
Peter.

[peter]

I moved the primary from the server to the client and it works fine.

I moved the secondary from the client to the server, formatted it as
one 10GB partition, but the 2003 Server setup program "couldn't find
any HD drives installed."

Please help,
Peter.

[peter]

I moved the primary from the server to the client and it works fine.

I moved the secondary from the client to the server, formatted it as
one 10GB partition, but the 2003 Server setup program "couldn't find
any HD drives installed."

Please help,
Peter.

[peter]

Problem fixed:

I'd used the wrong switch setting on the HD
(copied the setting off the prev. drive instead
of going with the picture on the HD).

I still find it strange that Setup was able to reformat &
partition the drive but couldn't recognize it even
existed one step later on.