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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (9922)	1/13/2000 10:55:00 AM
From: wily	Respond to of 14778

First of all make sure the computer is turned off <g>. The answer depends on whether you want your O/S to be on the new drive or you want to leave it where it is on the old drive. If your new drive is faster than the old one (like if the old one is a 5400RPM drive and the new one is 7200RPM), then you may want to get your O/S on the new one. Case 1: You want to leave the O/S on the old drive: Then your task is merely that of adding a HDD to your system. Assuming you have two IDE devices in there now -- a CDROM drive and a HDD, and assuming your CDROM is the secondary master (it's possible it's the primary slave, in which case you'll also need another IDE cable) -- then the steps would be: Set the jumper on your new drive to configure it as the primary slave (see instructions that come with the drive or check the manufacturer's website). If your CDROM is already in the primary slave position you should probably switch it to secondary master. Go into your BIOS and set the CMOS setup settings to accommodate the new HDD. Just set "primary slave" to "auto" and keep or set "secondary master" to "auto". Then TURN OFF THE COMPUTER and plug in the HDD to the IDE 1 cable and the power plug. You can partition and format the new disk from Windows by opening a dos-prompt window and using "fdisk" and "format". After partitioning with fdisk you will have to reboot and format it. Then reboot again and it's installed! If you now want your O/S to be on the new drive you have a couple choices: Do a fresh install on the new drive: Switch jumper settings so that the new drive is primary master and the old drive is primary slave (WITH THE COMPUTER OFF) and then install the OS. Or, clone your OS to the new drive using an app like Ghost or Drive Image. You can get a book with all this stuff in it PLUS free copies of Drive Image and Partition Magic for a great price: Message 12414362 Please don't try to plug or unplug your HDD with the power on. The system is not very forgiving. wily PS I wish I NEEDED that book because it is a GREAT buy with the software.

To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (9922)	1/13/2000 11:21:00 AM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I'm wanting to transfer all my data from my old hard drives to a new one....what's the best way to do this.. Can you install both hard drives in your computer? This will make it easy for you to copy the data you want to save from your old drive to your new drive. Note, there is a big difference between copying data and copying programs from an old disk to a new disk. Is it possible to do w/ a clean formatted drive? no operating system? Sure it is possible. But I suspect you aren't telling us every thing we need to know to give you an intelligent answer. Which disk will have the operating system on it when you are finished? Which disk has the operating system on it know?

To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (9922)	1/13/2000 12:42:00 PM
From: jw	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14778

Jeff, adding to wily & Howard's thoughts, here's an article I copied from somewhere. Perhaps wily & Howard would comment on this. I would like to add a second HDD in a removable tray and install Linux on it but I'm scared to try it. <g>. You go first then I'll follow, OK? want to replace your old 500mb hard drive (remember when you thought that was huge?) with a new 80 trillion gigabyte drive (well, not THAT big) and be able to keep your whole Win95 set up as it is without having to re-install Win95 and all your programs ? It's easier than you think. Just follow the steps below. WARNING!! Any time you monkey with your hardware you should be sure and do a good backup of any ir-replaceable data first. Install your new hard disk as a slave. You'll need to set jumpers on the drives to do that. See the instructions on the drive labels or visit the maker's web site. If your system does not auto-recognize the new drive on start up you will have to go into the BIOS setup and set up the drive. Go to a command prompt and run FDISK. Set the new drive as a primary partition. Reboot and format the new drive with the s switch i.e. Format D: /S (if D is your new drive). If you don't have an emergency start up diskette, make one now from CONTROL PANEL - ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS - CREATE START UP DISK. Select START - RUN and type in the OPEN field, XCOPY C:\. /E /H /K /R /C D: and click on OK. The switches are: /E copies directories and subdirectories even if empty. /H copies hidden and system files also./K retains the files attributes on copy. /R overwrites read only files. /C continues copying even if errors occur. When copy is done shut down system. Swap your drives around. Either remove your old drive or keep it as a second hard drive. Reverse the jumpers so the new drive is now the master. Turn on the PC and reset the CMOS to reflect the new drive positions. Boot up on your start-up diskette. Run FDISK and make partition one of the new drive the active one. Reboot again and you should boot up on your new humongous hard drive. Write down on paper how many months you think it will take you to fill up your new hard drive. Divide that number by two. Take the answer and divide it by two also. Multiply that answer by .25 (25%) and you'll have the real number of months before your new drive is full. (Don't get excited, I just made this last paragraph up. But... it might be closer to reality than you think.) Regards, /jw