How do I set up 2 HD??

[Guest]

I forgot to mention that my computer won't run if I put the 40gb with windows
as a master on Primary IDE. How is that possible? Running it as a slave
decreases my performance dramatically. How do I fix that too?
I do not wan't to partition my HD to be able to see it in "My Computer" as
well.
Bottom line is, I want to pass all my info to the new HD, then format my old
HD and finally install Windows on the new one. Is that possible?
Thanks a lot again,
Jose

 

[Tom]

I forgot to mention that my computer won't run if I put the 40gb with
windows
as a master on Primary IDE. How is that possible? Running it as a slave
decreases my performance dramatically. How do I fix that too?
I do not wan't to partition my HD to be able to see it in "My Computer" as
well.
Bottom line is, I want to pass all my info to the new HD, then format my
old
HD and finally install Windows on the new one. Is that possible?
Thanks a lot again,
Jose

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[Newtechie]

Jose,

You could use the utility that came with the new drive to clone the drive
40gb drive to the new drive. Read the manual on how to do it. If your
computer won't boot from the 40gb, then what you could do is install the O/S
on the new drive and set it master, then set the old drive to slave. Once
that's done, you'd have to transfer everything from the old to the new.

Newtechie

 

[John R Weiss]

Bottom line is, I want to pass all my info to the new HD, then format my old
HD and finally install Windows on the new one. Is that possible?

Without a HD cloning utility such as Norton Ghost, not quite in that order...

First disconnect the old drive (power and data cables). Don't move any files
off it yet. You can physically remove it if you are not going to permanently
re-install it, but you will have to temporarily reconnect it later.

Connect the new drive as Primary Master, boot from the Windows CD and install
Windows. Install any applications you want.

Reconnect the old HD, either as Primary Slave or Secondary Master. You may have
to go into Disk Manager (right-click on My Computer, then Manage, Disk
Management) to assign a drive letter to it. Copy all your data files to your
new HD. You may find a lot of data in the "Documents and Settings" folder under
your login name, so you may also want to copy that folder into a temporary
folder in My Documents on the new HD until you find them all). Disconnect the
old HD,

AFTER you have run the computer with the new HD for a while (several days or
weeks), and you know you have all your data copied, you can repartition and
reformat the old HD. If you may want to use it as an emergency bootable drive
later, put a Primary partition on it (but do NOT make it "active" if you are
going to keep it connected in the computer); if you are only going to use it for
data or data backup, make it an Extended partition.