Re: Hard Drive Replacement
- From: nesredep egrob <Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40>
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:35:44 +0800
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:06:40 -0400, John John <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Devalzadvok8 wrote:
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.
There is practically no advantage to having the applications on a
separate partition.
Oh dear me - should not have written that.
There is a massive improvement if you are clever enough to use Acronis for
backups. If that had been done, the C: drive would just have been replaced by
the back up. As you should know the system can exist quite happily on 10 GB
partition and that is a nice amount to backup via Acronis - just takes a couple
of minutes - THAT IS NOT the case if you back up the total disk.
To be really fireproof, you need to back up to a 320GB external.
For extra security I have 2x750GB in a raid array and they hold all my photos
and video.
A small price to pay for total security
Borge in sunny Perth, Australia
In the old days (MS-DOS) when applications had
individual .ini files and when they stored all their user data in their
individual program folders the idea made sense but nowadays it doesn't
make much sense to have the applications on a different drive than the
operating system, the only time I would ever recommend that is if the
operating system drive was low on space and if replacing the drive or
moving other things was impossible. If the operating system is hosed
and needs to be reinstalled almost all the applications need to be
reinstalled, so it serves practically no useful purpose having them on a
different partition.
My second hard drive, 'H', is a Seagate 18 Gig SCSI 15,000 rpm
'backup' drive.
What a waste of (expensive) speed! Using a 15,000 RPM drive for backups
only and using the slower one for the operating system is like using a
Formula 1 race car to drive to the end of the street and using the Lada
in the Formula 1 race! Install the operating system and all your
programs on the SCSI drive! For most users 18GB is plenty big for
Windows 2000 and the applications, just keep your user files on a
different 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.
Good idea! Disconnect the other (slow IDE) drive and install Windows
2000 on the SCSI drive. By disconnecting the IDE drive while you
install Windows you will eliminate drive letter assignment problems and
other possible confusions during the installation process. The IDE
drive can be brought on line after Windows 2000 is installed.
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?
You cannot do that, you *must* reinstall the applications. There is no
way that you can migrate or merge the applications' registry entries to
the new registry, no one in their right mind would even attempt this, it
would be a hopeless endeavour.
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?
No, that is not true. The Master/Slave relationship between IDE drives
on the same IDE controller is determined by "physical" hardware
settings, such as the jumper pins on the hard drive or by the use of
Cable Select cables if the motherboard supports cable select mechanism.
Windows 2000, nor any other Windows version for that matter, cannot
order or reorder the Master/Slave relationship between drives, you have
to open the box and move things about inside to do that.
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?
Yes that is the best way to go about it. After you install Windows 2000
cleanly on the SCSI drive and bring the old IDE drive back online you
may have to "take ownership" of the files on the IDE drive but other
than that you should be able to use the disk without problems.
'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.
Unfortunately that is what you will have to do if you want to do a clean
Windows 2000 installation. If you really insist on using the old
applications without reinstalling them then you will have to change your
plans and make further attempt to repair the damaged Windows
installation. If you are really knowledgeable and adept with the
Windows 2000 registry you can keep the old copy of the registry and you
can then use it to verify old application entries, and even transplant
some select old entries, but otherwise there is no way that you can
transfer the entries to the new Windows installation and expect the
application to run, you must reinstall the applications.
Regards;
John
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