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 Aug 18 2005, 11:20 PM
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Aug 19 2005, 06:27 PM
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man, you don't want a question answered, you want a book written. e-mail me and i can help a bit, use my hotmail account. your best bet is to do the format on the "deathstar" oops, i mean deskstar, (bad tech joke about ibm) , slap the old drive in on the other ide chanel (pull ribbon off cd rom and put on old drive), boot up, then copy all files from old to a new folder on the deathstar. the partitionong and formatting of the new drive is easy with the winxp cd, and you don't haver to worry about backing up on cd either. need more specific, get ahold of me.
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Aug 19 2005, 07:43 PM
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1. There are several different backup methods that you could use that will provide you with a variety of results. A simple backup, ie copying files to a cd, is really only good for data; not for the programs that use the data. So, if you are going to go that route dont bother backing up the actual programs.
There are other programs you can use, Norton Ghost for example, that can effectively clone the old drive to the new drive without having to re-install anything. 2. In essence the only thing you really have to worry about in making the switch is making sure the data you want off the old drive is backed up properly. 3. Most drives will have a diagram on the drive itself showing jumpers you have to set that determine weither the drive will be the master o the slave drive. The jumper is a simple plastic tab that will cover two ajacent pins on the end of the drive. Some drives in addition to having a diagram on the top of the drive will also have the initials MS, for master, SL, for slave, and CS, for cable select, with can help in determining which pinset is the correct one to use for a particular drive. Finally, as far as formatting and such goes all you should have to do is put in the drive and boot off of the windows xp cd. The windows setup process will give you an option to format the drive. As usual, however, I probably missed several things here in my post. Feel free to ask of you have any more questions or need any more detail on the subject. |
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Aug 20 2005, 08:38 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 549 Joined: 28-May 05 From: Newfoundland Member No.: 21,615 |
again the simplest ans easiest way without making a "ghost" disk, playing around with jumpers, is to format and setup new hard drive, then unplug your cd rom, plug in your old hard drive, copy and paste from d: to c: in "my computer". saying this, i can think of many ways to get the same end result. but i do this everyday, what cowee forgets is you said you are a newbie to this and the simplest most effieient way for you is the above i believe, but the result will be the same either way.
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Aug 20 2005, 08:43 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 549 Joined: 28-May 05 From: Newfoundland Member No.: 21,615 |
upon reading your original question, you had a 4 gig and going to a 40 gig. is your motherboard going to see the 40 gigs? sounds like not, the older boards have a hard time seeing anything over a 20 gig, now if you cant see the whole 40 gigs, you can either check out a bios update for the motherboard or you can check with IBM on how to "clip" your hard drive. this enables old boards to see more then the 20 gigs they are able to, but it does limit your storage capacity, plug in your "new" 40 gig hard drive , then check with bios to see if it natively supports its size before you get to far ahead.
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