Install XP to my other HDD

[Guest]

G'Day All,

I am wanting to install XP on my 2nd (larger, faster) HDD on my PC whilst
still keeping the other one running for a while (to ensure I get everything
transfered & installed). Can anyone help with how I should go about this.
Anything I find is on installing 'different' OS on the 2nd drive.

Cheers,

 

[DL]

You just boot from the winxp cd and follow prompts, but having said that the
boot files will still be on C and the new o/s installation will be to eg E:\
which is something you might not want to finish up with.
So perhaps you should disconnect the current o/s hd, install the new hd as
master, then with old hd still disconnected install winxp, update, install
Apps then shutdown and connect the old hd as slave to recover data

 

[AJR]

Use a program such as Partition Magic, Ghost. etc. or the installation disk
received with the HD (assuming you installed it) to copy/clone first drive
(master) - to the second drive. Of course backup any date on second drive
that you want to keep.