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Old 03-18-2005, 05:52 AM   #1
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Lightbulb New hard drive (not formatted)

I have just got hold of a brand new hard drive seagate 10g for my old second computer , my question can i just take out the old 4g drive and replace it with the new one and then just put in a xp cd to format and load windows,or is it not that simple.If not can someone point me to a good tutorial
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Old 03-18-2005, 06:18 AM   #2
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It is that simple, unless the bios is so old it can't recognize a drive larger than 8gb.
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