RE: Hard Drive Replacement

My problem is somewhat similar to Norm's. I have two hard drives, the first
,currently, an 80 Gig IDE 'C' drive that also has 'D' and 'E' partitions.
All my system software, Windows, etc. is on my 'C' drive. All my data files
are on my 'D' partition. All my application programs are on my 'E'
partition. My second hard drive, 'H', is a Seagate 18 Gig SCSI 15,000 rpm
'backup' drive.

Problem: Bad virus on my 'C' drive! Cannot eliminate it - no how. Want to
establish my existing 'H' drive as my new 'C' drive and reload Windows 2000
on it. Then, I go back to my 'old' 'C' drive [now my new 'D' partition -
format it, use Partition Magic to add my old 'D' partition to it, and
continue to use my old, 'legacy' programs that are on the 'E' drive, which
did not change 'address'. However, I believe I have to somehow 'move' all
the current 'C' drive Registry items from that old 'C' drive over to my 'new'
'C' drive. How do I do this? Is anything else required?

Second 'problem': My understanding is that Win2000 controls which drive is
'slave' and which is 'master' - not done by 'changing 'pins/clips' on the
hard drives themselves. Is this true? If so, is just so simple that I
disconnect my existing IDE C,D,E drive and start the computer up with Win2000
install disk in CD ROM drive? Then, after old SCSI 'H' drive now 'C' drive,
with Win2000, then just hook up my old 'C',D,E drive, 'eliminate' 'C', and
then go from here? 'Preciate any help that can be given here. Going back to
the 'beginning' and re-installing all my old legacy software [some going back
to 1995] is an almost impossible task at this point. T.I.A.

Dev

"Norm Cook" wrote:

Hi experts:
I have 2 physical internal hard drives:
c: 30GB single partition - operating system
d: 80GB single partition - data

Have ordered a Seagate 320GB.

My plan:
1) copy everything from d: to my usb external & delete all folders/files
2) copy everything from c: to d:
3) shutdown & install the 80GB drive as master (c:) and the
new 320GB drive as slave (d:)

Is this doable or will I have to do a clean/reinstall windows etc
on the 80GB.

If this plan won't work, I will likely just leave the c: drive as is and
replace the d: (80GB) with the new 320GB drive.

Thanks all--



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