Transferring Harddrives

[ubiam0ribioculus]

I have another quick question.
I also have another PC, it's an HP, but its handles XP quite nicely. When i had XP installed by a friend we took advantage of the second hardrive. The first harddrive was used solely for Windows XP, and we managed to install AOL on there too... Now when we try to use the second hardrive, and to install or download things it reverts back to the first and smaller hardrive. For example, trying to download AIM i specifically save it to the second hardrive, but when i try to run it, it says that there is not enough room on the first hardrive. I was wondering if there was a solution to changing the main hardrive? if not could someone please give me the steps to putting everything from the first smaller harddrive onto the second larger one without deleting a lot of programs?

any help would be greatly appriciated.

[Cricket]

Is the second hard drive filled with anything yet or is it mostly empty? If it's mostly empty, you could "clone" the smaller hard drive's contents to the bigger hard drive with the hard drive utility CD. If you bought the hard drive OEM, you can visit the manufacturer's web site and look for the hard drive utilities...there might be a cloning utility there somewhere.

Do you clean out the Recycle Bin regularly? What about the Temp folder? Just how big is the smaller hard drive?

Cricket

[ubiam0ribioculus]

the smaller harddrive is 2 gigs. and the larger one is 20. and the larger one i think has 18 or 19 gigs of free space, plenty of space to clone. so find out the manf. of my smaller harddrive and clone it to the larger one then remove it? then im guessing move the larger harddrive, which is set as slave to master?
i think i understand, just not quite sure how to do it.
and yes, i do clean out everything regularly, through system internet washer pro, and disk cleanup.
Sam

[Cricket]

If you do clone the first hard drive contents to the larger hard drive, whatever is on the larger hard drive will be lost. If you already have that data saved safely off the hard drive, go ahead and clone the small hard drive to the larger one.

After that's done, change the priority of the drives. If you're using a 80 wire IDE cable, leave the drive jumper to CS and just more the large hard drive to the black connector and the smaller drive to the grey connector.

But if you're using a 40 wire IDE you have to see if it's a cable select cable or just a regular IDE cable (some name brand computers use 40 wire cable select IDE cables and set the drives to cable select). If it's a regular IDE cable, just change the drive jumpers around. A 40 wire cable select IDE cable is sometimes marked with master and slave on the connectors or it's printed next to the connectors.

Cricket