Exchanging hard drives

[bently]

Just Installed new 80 gig WD hard drive as C and D.
Win XP home is on C.
Have a second HD, a 10 gig HD labeled F and G.

I want to remove the 10 gig F&G hard drive, and put in place the OLD WD
40 gig C&D drive, which has windows XP home and lots of program & data
folders.

1. Will the drives show up as F&G, same as one replaced?

2. Will there be any problems doing this... will windows somehow try to
access the old copy of XP on the other drive? "I will insure jumper in
correct position". Do not want dual boot.

3. I plan to copy all wanted files from the "old" C drive to the new D
drive, than REFORMAT the old C drive, removing WIN XP from second
drive. ANY PROBLEMS DOING THAT?


3. Is there anything I should look out for?

Thanks

bently

 

[Guest]

Windows XP labels primary partitions first, then extended partitions.

There was an extensive discussion on one of the other post. Don't remember
exactly where.

So depending on what types of partitions are on old 40 gig HDD will
determine what drive letters Windows will assign.

Could look in Help and Support.
Start>Help and Support

 

[D.Currie]

Just Installed new 80 gig WD hard drive as C and D.
Win XP home is on C.
Have a second HD, a 10 gig HD labeled F and G.

I want to remove the 10 gig F&G hard drive, and put in place the OLD WD 40
gig C&D drive, which has windows XP home and lots of program & data
folders.

1. Will the drives show up as F&G, same as one replaced?

Not necessarily, but it really doesn't matter. If you want F&G you can go
into Disk Management and change the drive letters to whatever you want.

2. Will there be any problems doing this... will windows somehow try to
access the old copy of XP on the other drive? "I will insure jumper in
correct position". Do not want dual boot.

No. If the jumpers are correct and the boot sequence in the bios is correct,
and there's nothing peculiar about the drive you're installing, it will just
see the drive as another drive with data on it.

3. I plan to copy all wanted files from the "old" C drive to the new D
drive, than REFORMAT the old C drive, removing WIN XP from second drive.
ANY PROBLEMS DOING THAT?
No.



3. Is there anything I should look out for?

Not really. Windows won't let you format the existing operating system
drive, if you're doing it from within Windows, so that's safe enough. If
you've got adequate virus protection, you probably won't copy viruses from
the old drive to the new, as the files should be checked as they're copied.

Unless you butter your hands before you start and you drop one of the
drives, it all seems pretty safe.

 

[bently]

Not necessarily, but it really doesn't matter. If you want F&G you can go
into Disk Management and change the drive letters to whatever you want.




No. If the jumpers are correct and the boot sequence in the bios is correct,
and there's nothing peculiar about the drive you're installing, it will just
see the drive as another drive with data on it.




Not really. Windows won't let you format the existing operating system
drive, if you're doing it from within Windows, so that's safe enough. If
you've got adequate virus protection, you probably won't copy viruses from
the old drive to the new, as the files should be checked as they're copied.

Unless you butter your hands before you start and you drop one of the
drives, it all seems pretty safe.

Thanks Dixonian & D.Currie,

Appreciate the help

bently