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10-17-2010, 08:51 PM
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second hard drive help
ok i am new but I am learning fast... I have an old dell dim. 4600I i have juiced up the ram and have installed a second hard drive. the second hard drive is 250 drive much bigger then the 40 i have in it. i want to make the new hard drive the main drive... how do i get windows xp on my new drive and move over the files on my current C drive. new drive is F. please help me out.
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10-17-2010, 08:56 PM
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Best thing would be to set the larger drive as the primary HDD and install Windows onto it. What brand are these drives? Some manufacturers provide free cloning utilities; you can download them off their website.
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10-17-2010, 09:03 PM
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10-17-2010, 09:09 PM
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If you're going to upgrade, then just unplug the old hard drive from the mobo. Plug the new one to where the other was was connected and boot from the Windows 7 CD. Install Windows 7 and once everything's set up, replug your old HDD to another of the Serial ATA connectors on the mobo. Windows 7 will find it and you'll be able to transfer your personal files to the new HDD and OS.
I'm assuming your HDDs are serial ATA, is that correct? |
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10-17-2010, 09:12 PM
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well they are IDE and both hard drives are on cable select ... i wont be upgrading tell next week... but i need to maek this change so i can put office 2010 on it tonight... i have the windows xp disk and my code from jelly bean...
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10-17-2010, 09:19 PM
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cable select is fine as long as long as you only have one plugged in at a time.
if your case has room for both, why not just install the new one (set old one to master and new one to slave, and connect the new one to the end of the cable, and the old one to the middle connector) you can still install and run programs on the new one this way, without the need for a reformat/install of your os.
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10-17-2010, 09:36 PM
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so i dont need a os on the new hard drive if its in the master spot (end of the cable)????
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10-17-2010, 09:38 PM
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i found the cloaning program on western digital site thanks for the advice... let me see if i can make that work
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10-17-2010, 10:11 PM
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10-18-2010, 12:01 AM
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Dell hard drives have 3 partitions and require special procedures to clone them. It will be a LOT easier just to install Windows 7 from scratch on the new drive.
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10-18-2010, 08:08 AM
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it took all night of acronics true image to run but it maid an exact copy of my hard drive and everything is working... but now i found out to upgrade to windows 7 i have to lose everything and reinstall all my programs... i guess i will pass on upgrading this OS.
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10-18-2010, 09:28 AM
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Did you also bring over the diagnostic partition and the recovery partition?
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10-18-2010, 11:12 PM
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um.... what? all i know is that program moved all my files and i didnt have to install anything on my new hard drive...
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