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02-14-2003, 06:51 PM
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Drive to Drive : Moving to a bigger HD
Hi all.
I had a 20GB Seagate Hd and now I have a 80GB Western Digital HD, I want to know how I can copy EFVERYTHING from the 20 to the 80 so that I may use the 80 as my master HD and boot off of it normally as i did with the 20. Please help, thankz. |
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02-14-2003, 07:50 PM
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Hello Kronolegionaire,
Master the new drive to the slave drive, and partition/format/install the operating system on the master drive. When everything is done, go into my computer, and it should list your other hard drive. Copy and Paste the contents on that drive to the other drive. Make sure the BIOS reads the exact information on the hard drive as it read before you switched it to Slave? Meaning like if it was set to AUTO detection of settings, then you must have it set for AUTO detection. Depending on the hard drive that you have, you can go to their website and download a utility to where you can copy the contents of one drive and send it to the other. Maxtor has this. Hope that helps! Last edited by Markoman01027; 02-14-2003 at 08:12 PM. |
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02-14-2003, 08:19 PM
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Kronolegionaire
I just did what you are asking about and I used a software called Drive Copy from Powerquest. It will copy your old drive to your new and make the new drive your master. It's about $45.00 retail but makes the process foolproof. Just make sure that your motherboards bios can handle the upgrade. Good Luck Tom |
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02-14-2003, 10:37 PM
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No software money, used it all up on Hardware. File copies are easy but I believe the boot sector is something I need to, correct? I mean in the tearms of being able to boot windows off the drive. I can copy files via dos, windows, or anthor utility but how about those other things.? |
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02-15-2003, 01:58 AM
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You can probably down WD utility that will allow you to copy your drive. If it didn't come with your new drive.
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02-15-2003, 09:14 AM
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oh sweet, if there is one. looking right now, bbl
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02-15-2003, 02:41 PM
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thats one thing i never got in the WD diag tools, there is a thing called Install Hard Drive, whats it for?
With those tools you can copy over, yup |
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02-15-2003, 02:43 PM
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install HD is the wizard for formatting, partitoning and copying from from a old HD to a new one.
I used it but it didn't really work very good. |
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