Can't answer without a bit more data. Is there anything else using the IDE connection?
More to the point, is the render machine's current boot drive IDE or SATA? If it's SATA, then you should be golden- just go into the BIOS, and make sure the SATA drive comes first in the boot order.
If it's IDE, then you need to take a long, hard look at both drives AND the cable. The proper boot drive needs to have its jumper (if it's even old enough to have jumpers; the later IDE drives moved entirely to BIOS-based boot order) set to the 'master' position, the 2K machine's drive needs to have its jumper set to the 'slave' position, and the drives (may) need to be plugged into the proper ports on the cable. Then again, they might not; IDE is a heckuva lot more fiddly than SATA, and a lot of knowing what needs doing with it (and more importantly, what doesn't) has to be done case-by-case. The later versions of IDE/PATA act more like SATA 0.5; the older ones are closer to Apple ][/IBM PC-style behavior.
tl;dr: Yes, but if they're both IDE drives, it gets a *lot* more complex.
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More to the point, is the render machine's current boot drive IDE or SATA? If it's SATA, then you should be golden- just go into the BIOS, and make sure the SATA drive comes first in the boot order.
If it's IDE, then you need to take a long, hard look at both drives AND the cable. The proper boot drive needs to have its jumper (if it's even old enough to have jumpers; the later IDE drives moved entirely to BIOS-based boot order) set to the 'master' position, the 2K machine's drive needs to have its jumper set to the 'slave' position, and the drives (may) need to be plugged into the proper ports on the cable. Then again, they might not; IDE is a heckuva lot more fiddly than SATA, and a lot of knowing what needs doing with it (and more importantly, what doesn't) has to be done case-by-case. The later versions of IDE/PATA act more like SATA 0.5; the older ones are closer to Apple ][/IBM PC-style behavior.
tl;dr: Yes, but if they're both IDE drives, it gets a *lot* more complex.
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