Author Topic: Hard Drive change out?  (Read 1178 times)

TBoone

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Hard Drive change out?
« on: December 19, 2001, 04:10:02 PM »
Here\'s what I\'m planning and Ya\'ll tell me if I\'m on the right track!  I recently had Josetann buildt a P-4 1.7 with a 40 GB Hard drive in it. I\'m planning on putting a 100GB in it but would run Ghost copying an Img. of my old drive, remove and install new and install old image on new drive. I\'m running XP by the way!   Am I headed in the right direction??
   Thx in advance!

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Hard Drive change out?
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2001, 05:20:39 PM »
Yes you are , but then you will have a harddisk of 100gb in 1 partition with winxp on it . Or if you partition the disk first , I would make a primary dos partition of at least 100mb bigger than the drive or partition winxp was on first  , to be sure to meet no surprises , and eventually 1 ,2 ,3 ....other partitions , and format them .
I suppose you made your gho image on cdr disks .Big risk !
6 disks need a lot of luck to set back without problems
I would first install the second drive and format it and  partition it , and put it as a slave of  my original drive with winxp on it or as master on the second ide channel  .
Make my ghost image and put it on the 2nd partition of the new harddisk , check it afterwards with menu item check image .Your image will be more or less 2.5gb .
Then turn off your computer and put the new disk  on the first ide channel , as master and the other one as slave or on the second ide channel as master , (or disconnect it for the moment untill  the new winxp starting up normally)
Then turn on your computer with a bootable ghost disk A (or a bootable ghost) cdrom , and do an image to partition on the first partition of your new drive (C:) .You\'ll find your image on D: or the second partition ., and follow instructions .
Do not restart winxp before everything is done.
Do not format your second drive with winxp before you can startup in winxp from the new drive .
Good luck