hard drive replacement

[Carlos]

My hard drive (samsung 40gb 5400rpm) is still good but has
it's occasional problem and I'm sure it will be failing
soon. I have bought a Western Digital 40gb 7200 rpm hard
drive as a replacement but can't seem to get the hard
drive to work using the data life guard application from
Western Digital. I tried a drive to drive copy but I
think that maybe the EULA is getting in my way. I want to
use my C:drive existing image for boot up and designate it
as my new C: drive. I have a lot of applications and data
I don't want to have to reload. Help

 

[Pegasus]

My hard drive (samsung 40gb 5400rpm) is still good but has
it's occasional problem and I'm sure it will be failing
soon. I have bought a Western Digital 40gb 7200 rpm hard
drive as a replacement but can't seem to get the hard
drive to work using the data life guard application from
Western Digital. I tried a drive to drive copy but I
think that maybe the EULA is getting in my way. I want to
use my C:drive existing image for boot up and designate it
as my new C: drive. I have a lot of applications and data
I don't want to have to reload. Help

Please be a little more precise!
- Did you set the new disk in the BIOS?
- What happens when you boot from the new disk?
- What messages do you get?
- If you boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk from
www.bootdisk.com, does fdisk.exe recognise the disk?

 

[Guest]

sorry...I did the drive to drive copy of xp after the new
HD was formatted as a bootable drive. I disconnected the
old HD and set the jumper to indicate as primary master.
My bios indcated that it had recognized the new HD as the
primary master. When I boot from the new HD the WINDOWS
XP screen shows up like if it was ready to load windows
but then the HD just sits there. I tried using the XP CD
for asisted bootup the CD spins momentarily without any
mesages or action. I haven't tried the win98 boot floopy
to access FDISK. Is there a way to get to FDISK on XP ?

 

[PeteB]

You didn't say if it is XP Home or XP Pro.

I just did almost this identical change-out on an XP Pro
desktop system. Worked smoothly. The new drive was a
WD400BB 40GB drive. I followed WD's procedure. I don't
think EULA is your problem.

There was one foul-up (my fault) so I had to re-do it. WD
tech support was quite helpful by phone. They have a
utility on their website that will wipe the new drive to
all zeros. That's important to do once you have to re-do
something.

At a high level, here was my procedure, although it's just
the WD procedure. Download their full installation manual
for more background.

Ran DLG on the PC to generate the customized instructions
and printed them.

Turned PC off and installed new drive in second IDE
position.

Ran DLG - I booted to the DLG CD and ran "from DOS" but
can also run from Windows. Used DLG to create the bootable
partition. Then used the copy function to copy entire
partition from old drive to new drive.

Immediately shut down PC, remove old drive, put new one in
primary position. (Better to never boot to Windows with
both drives installed.)

Turn on PC and get into setup. Check IDE configuraiton and
boot sequence to be sure the drive is being recognized,
the full capacity is detected, and the boot sequence goes
to that drive.

Boot to Windows.

 

[Pegasus]

How exactly did you do the "drive to drive" copy?