Installing a new Hard drive
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Hi all, Sorry in advance if the question doesn't belong to this mailing list. I have two machines, one with winXP P4, 20 GB HD and the other with winME P3, 20 GB HD. I want to add one more hard disk 40 GB to both machines. Now my question is how to do this? Further, all my programs including OS reside on "C:" (20 GB) what I want is to make the new hard disk with 40 GB as "C:" and move all files and program residing on old "C:" to new one with 40 GB. How to achive this? Any help in this regard will be appreciated. thanks in advance regards /rsasalm
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Hi all, Sorry in advance if the question doesn't belong to this mailing list. I have two machines, one with winXP P4, 20 GB HD and the other with winME P3, 20 GB HD. I want to add one more hard disk 40 GB to both machines. Now my question is how to do this? Further, all my programs including OS reside on "C:" (20 GB) what I want is to make the new hard disk with 40 GB as "C:" and move all files and program residing on old "C:" to new one with 40 GB. How to achive this? Any help in this regard will be appreciated. thanks in advance regards /rsasalm
Do you have a home Network, if so then it will make things much easier, as you can use one machine as a temporary file server to store all you data. Generally you will want to install the new disk as the system drive as newer drives are normally faster. As for moving your programs over, you will on the whole (Paint Shop Pro does not seem to mind) not be able to just copy and paste the programs from the old to the new drive because of all the application settings and dll/com registrations in the registry not being on the new install. Personnally, copy all your data e.g. My Documents, IE favorites etc and do a clean reinstall of the system. You may find it useful to backup your NT account folder as well, not that you will be able to copy this back, but just that there may be some useful files that store personal data of some sort. e.g. Outlook Email Databases. If this not an option, then some kind of system backup restor utility like partition magic should be able to help out, but backing up your entire c drive as a single image, but you will need a few blank CD's from what I can tell. Finally you are going to have to think about the jumper setting on the drives setting a slave/master config. Most manufacturers will tell you how on their support sites e.g. here [New Window].
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Hi all, Sorry in advance if the question doesn't belong to this mailing list. I have two machines, one with winXP P4, 20 GB HD and the other with winME P3, 20 GB HD. I want to add one more hard disk 40 GB to both machines. Now my question is how to do this? Further, all my programs including OS reside on "C:" (20 GB) what I want is to make the new hard disk with 40 GB as "C:" and move all files and program residing on old "C:" to new one with 40 GB. How to achive this? Any help in this regard will be appreciated. thanks in advance regards /rsasalm
Let's call your current installation partition of the OS A, the "rescue" one B, and the one you finally want to become your boot partition C (note that in MS terminlogy "boot" and "system" is so mixed up you might get ideas of where crack was first invented). Install the new HD. Partition and format it to your hearts delight. Install another XP as "rescue" on its own partition. Make the smallest installation you can. This is B. Reboot, starting your newly installed "rescue" OS B. This is needed since the original OS (A) keeps some of its vital files locked down so hard you can't even copy them. Copy only the files in the root directory from A to C (on the new drive, and make sure it's a "primary" partition and that it's made Active) first. This might not be needed anymore, but it can't hurt (to place the system vital files in the beginning of the partition). Copy all the other stuff from A to C (everything but the root-dir that is already copied). Posibly fiddle with your boot.ini on the new-"C:"-to-be if you changed partition-order or something. Shut down. Don't remove any partitions yet! Switch the drives so the 40GB takes the place of the old drive (switch master/slave and/or swithing cable, depending on how you did it). Make sure your computers BIOS recongnize the "new" (40GB) drive as the first drive. Boot. At this point you _should_ be running your old OS installation, but off the new drive. You however have to verify this yourself (by whatever means you can come to think of - different filesystem labels is usually enough). Now, when you have verified that your "old" OS boots from the new drive, shut down, remove the old drive and once again verify that everything boots up as expected. Once this is done, reinsert the old drive, start up again, remove that old partition from the old drive and do what it whatever you like.
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Hi all, Sorry in advance if the question doesn't belong to this mailing list. I have two machines, one with winXP P4, 20 GB HD and the other with winME P3, 20 GB HD. I want to add one more hard disk 40 GB to both machines. Now my question is how to do this? Further, all my programs including OS reside on "C:" (20 GB) what I want is to make the new hard disk with 40 GB as "C:" and move all files and program residing on old "C:" to new one with 40 GB. How to achive this? Any help in this regard will be appreciated. thanks in advance regards /rsasalm
Hook up the new hard drive in the computer, format & partition it, then to copy all the files, open a command prompt and do
xcopy C:\*.* D:\ /h /e /c /k /y. That should copy everything except the swap file, which is OK 'cause that'll get recreated anyway. Shut down, hook up the new drive as primary master and you're set. There are also commercial programs like Ghost that can do the copying as well. --Mike-- Just released - RightClick-Encrypt - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm -
Hi all, Sorry in advance if the question doesn't belong to this mailing list. I have two machines, one with winXP P4, 20 GB HD and the other with winME P3, 20 GB HD. I want to add one more hard disk 40 GB to both machines. Now my question is how to do this? Further, all my programs including OS reside on "C:" (20 GB) what I want is to make the new hard disk with 40 GB as "C:" and move all files and program residing on old "C:" to new one with 40 GB. How to achive this? Any help in this regard will be appreciated. thanks in advance regards /rsasalm
Use an imaging utility like Ghost, to store your system's partition (drive C:) onto some accessible share on a computer. Afterwards, go to the other computer, put the new HD inside, and boot it with a network-enabled boot diskette. Connect to the share where your HD's image is, and dump it on the new HD. Ghost will compensate for any size diffs of the HD's. You can ask Ghost to enlarge the partition size as it dumps the image on the disk. /=/=/=/= Deus /=/=/=/=