installing new 40gig

[milkman4_hi_r]

is there any way to ghost my old HDD to the new one and use the new one with OS and everything on it, or do i have to reistalll every thing to new HDD to use it as my primary drive?

[shadow of chaos]

it is possible, but you need a program.. i think its called Norton ghost.. try a search on google

[glc]

You don't have to buy Ghost - you can use the utility from the hard drive manufacturer - of *either* drive.

[TwoRails]

Ghost is made to do exactly that! If you don't already have it, it can be had pretty cheap if you get the OEM version of Norton System Works PRO -- which is about $10 -20 depending where you get it.

TwoRails

[crjdriver]

I have used the mgf's utility for copying the drive. It works well; however it is not as easy to use as Ghost or Drive Image. The mfg's utility is free; both Ghost and Drive Image are not.

[milkman4_hi_r]

im putting this drive into a computer with win98 and it wont boot up. the drive should be fine, but on the post sccreen where bios reads what drives are connected, it stalls on the slave drive which is the 40gig and i have to restart. anyone know why this is?

[TwoRails]

Did you use the new 80wire ribbon cable? How do you have the all the drives jumpered? Does the system boot normally with the new drive removed?

[milkman4_hi_r]

yea the system is fine. im using it as a slave, or trying to, but its not working. not sure if its a 80wire ribbon. it connects to the drive. i think the board is ata66 or something. kind of old computer. has a p3 450mhz,pc133 sdram. right now it just has a 4gig, thats why i want to put the new one in there.

[glc]

The bios probably has a 32gb limitation. You will need to do one of the following:

1. Update the bios if there's an update available that takes care of the limitation.
2. Use a PCI controller card.
3. Set the cylinder limitation jumper and live with 32gb or use a software bios overlay.
4. Use a drive that's less than 32gb.

[milkman4_hi_r]

i think it is limited becouse i have a 10 gig that i just got and it works fine. i tried to update my bios but it wouldnt take. i dont know why. a friend of mine told me to turn off bios protection and that should work. any suggestions. im limited for funds right now so #1 is my best option.

[jimmyrules712]

go to www.pricewatch.com and find norton systemworks 2003, its only 10 bucks or less, it has ghost on it.

[glc]

Whats the exact motherboard model?

Your friend is prolly talking about "system bios cacheable" - turn this off and reboot before you flash.

[milkman4_hi_r]

its a soyo board. i have the model but its on the computer and i had to pack up couse im moving so i cant get to it. the bios cache is turned off, but there is a virus protection sort of feature that says the bios is protected. hes flashed his bios before and i havent so im still learning. i tried to flash it through windows but it wouldnt let me so i had to use a boot disk and run award flash from there but when i tried to get the flash to go through it said the file wasnt recognized. should i start with the oldest flash after my rev. and work my way up or does it matter?

[glc]

NEVER flash through Windows. Use a bare Dos/Win9x bootdisk, not a startup disk. Flash once, with the latest version. Look in the bios for virus protection and turn it off too.

[milkman4_hi_r]

what is the difference in a boot disc and a startup disk? when you install windows it asks you if you want to create one, not sure which, is that the right one? i think its in the start menue too.

[glc]

No, that has CD drivers and stuff. Format a floppy in a Win9x system using the /s switch.

format a: /s