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12-02-2005, 12:49 PM
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Location: East of Sumter, SC, 90 Miles From the Beach
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Move OS to Secondary Drive
I just bought a new hard drive to compliment my existing drive. I would like to "move" the OS (XP Home) to the new drive and keep everything else on the existing original drive. I don't have a windows cd. My el-cheapo PC came with xp pre-installed. I do plan to upgrade the os in the future to the full version XP Pro. Can anyone here tell me how to do this? I imagine that once the "move" is made, I will also need to change the BIOS to look to the new hard drive containing the OS to boot from, isn't that correct? I need instruction on that too. My goal is to make the OS easy to reinstall from a cd once I get a cd without disrupting any other applications or data. If you guys have any suggestions for anything else that should go on my "OS Hard Drive", please let me know.
Specs: Compaq SR1520NX AMD Sempron 3100+ (1.81GHz) 512 MB RAM upgraded to 1GB 160 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive (Original) 100 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive (New, not installed yet) DVD +/- RW Drive Windows XP Home SP2 Thanks, Craig |
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12-02-2005, 01:40 PM
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Did the new drive come with any cloning software?
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12-02-2005, 06:12 PM
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No, the new disk drive did not come with clone software.
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