New Hard drive installed

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Faye

I want to install a new hard drive, but when I upgraded
to win. XP (home edition) it did not come with a recovery
CD . Is there a way to create one ? or any suggestions on
how to boot from the CD after installing the hard drive?
Please e-mail me as it is a bit difficult to read some of
the small print at this time.

Thanks
Lazy Bee
 
How did you manage to Upgrade to XP if you didn't get a CD?

If by magic I have read between the lines correctly, you intend to install a new Hard Drive and then 'copy' you current drive across.

To do this, it would be better to buy a Maxtor Drive and get their Software [supplied with retail Hard Drive]. The software is on a bootable CD, complete with written and on scrren instructions that step you through this process.

Failing that, you'll need to format and partition the new hard drive and buy a product like Ghost and then from the bootable floopy disk, boot up the system and do a disk to disk copy. Old drive to new drive.

Reconfigure the drives so that the new drive becomes the Primary Master and then boot up from it [make sure the old drive is disconnected at this time]. Check out the partitioning and formatting of the new Hard drive and then shutdown.

Reinstall the old drive as Primary Slave or Secondary Master.

Rerboot to WIndows, then format the old drive. You can now use the old drive as a 'recovery drive' by using Ghost to create an Image of the new [system] drive. It is then able to be used to restore you system when and if there are any problems.

It is wise to run Ghost regularly as a full 'backup' process.
 
I do have a CD . I bought it at office depot, and
installed, but no recover disk came with it. I will try
youer suggestions. Thanks!The drive I bought is Maxtor ,
by the way.

-----Original Message-----
How did you manage to Upgrade to XP if you didn't get a CD?

If by magic I have read between the lines correctly, you
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intend to install a new Hard Drive and then 'copy' you
current drive across.
To do this, it would be better to buy a Maxtor Drive and
Click to expand...
get their Software [supplied with retail Hard Drive].
The software is on a bootable CD, complete with written
and on scrren instructions that step you through this
process.
Failing that, you'll need to format and partition the
Click to expand...
new hard drive and buy a product like Ghost and then from
the bootable floopy disk, boot up the system and do a
disk to disk copy. Old drive to new drive.
Reconfigure the drives so that the new drive becomes the
Click to expand...
Primary Master and then boot up from it [make sure the
old drive is disconnected at this time]. Check out the
partitioning and formatting of the new Hard drive and
then shutdown.
Reinstall the old drive as Primary Slave or Secondary Master.

Rerboot to WIndows, then format the old drive. You can
Click to expand...
now use the old drive as a 'recovery drive' by using
Ghost to create an Image of the new [system] drive. It
is then able to be used to restore you system when and if
there are any problems.
 
There is no recover disk that comes with Windows. It has its own built
in recovery console and repair installtion process. I guess these could
be considered recover options. What you are thinking of by recover disk
is something that is often supplied with OEM computers such as Dell or HP.

Your new Maxtor Harddrive comes with software called MaxBlast. Just
connect both drives in the same computer, the new one as Master, the old
on as Slave, and boot off the MaxBlast CD. Choose to copy the old drive
to the new one and you are set to go ;)

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Nathan McNulty

I do have a CD . I bought it at office depot, and
installed, but no recover disk came with it. I will try
youer suggestions. Thanks!The drive I bought is Maxtor ,
by the way.


-----Original Message-----
How did you manage to Upgrade to XP if you didn't get a
CD?

If by magic I have read between the lines correctly, you
Click to expand...

intend to install a new Hard Drive and then 'copy' you
current drive across.
To do this, it would be better to buy a Maxtor Drive and
Click to expand...

get their Software [supplied with retail Hard Drive].
The software is on a bootable CD, complete with written
and on scrren instructions that step you through this
process.
Failing that, you'll need to format and partition the
Click to expand...

new hard drive and buy a product like Ghost and then from
the bootable floopy disk, boot up the system and do a
disk to disk copy. Old drive to new drive.
Reconfigure the drives so that the new drive becomes the
Click to expand...

Primary Master and then boot up from it [make sure the
old drive is disconnected at this time]. Check out the
partitioning and formatting of the new Hard drive and
then shutdown.
Reinstall the old drive as Primary Slave or Secondary
Master.

Rerboot to WIndows, then format the old drive. You can
Click to expand...

now use the old drive as a 'recovery drive' by using
Ghost to create an Image of the new [system] drive. It
is then able to be used to restore you system when and if
there are any problems.
It is wise to run Ghost regularly as a full 'backup'
process.

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Faye said:
I do have a CD . I bought it at office depot, and
installed, but no recover disk came with it.
Click to expand...

A standard XP CD like that is itself bootable - it does not need any
related floppy. You need to enter your BIOS setup by hitting the
appropriate hot key at power on, and there set to boot CD before Hard
disk. Put the XP CD in, exit, saving settings, and reboot from the CD
(you will probably be asked to confirm that by hitting a key; on the
next reboot in an install, leave the CD in but do not hit a l=key and
wait so it boots the hard disk
 
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