Re: Installing on a new drive - same computer
- From: "Phil Weldon" <notdiscosed@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 22:29:49 GMT
'justme' wrote:
| I would leave the 120 as the XP boot disk and install the 400 as a slave
in
| place of your old dead 20. There's no advantage to making the c drive a
400
| gb unless your 120 is really, really slow. There is also no advantage to
| installing programs on anything but C, use the 400 for data backup keeping
| one copy on C and another on the 400.
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No, the operating system should be on the newer, faster hard drive. A 400
GByte hard drive will have a considerably faster sustained data rate because
of the much higher recording density (more data per second passes the R/W
heads.) All that is necessary is to clone the 120 GByte hard drive to the
new 400 GByte hard drive, then either use the extra space for new
partitions, or use a partition manager to expand the original partition(s)
to use the entire capacity.
Phil Weldon
"justme" <spamthebam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:T8q8g.14120$ba.12341@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|I would leave the 120 as the XP boot disk and install the 400 as a slave in
| place of your old dead 20. There's no advantage to making the c drive a
400
| gb unless your 120 is really, really slow. There is also no advantage to
| installing programs on anything but C, use the 400 for data backup keeping
| one copy on C and another on the 400.
|
| "LAMc Drafting" <LAMcDrafting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:47C47B92-988B-4255-B3B5-2E41A5CE87E4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > My C-drive is 120 gig, my d-drive is 20 gig. My d-drive is the drive
that
| > died. The win xp disk I have is pre sp1. I want to make teh new 400 gig
my
| > primary-bootable disk & turn my 120 gig into an auxillary drive, having
my
| > programs (located on the 120 gig) available to use. Any suggestions?
| >
| > Thanks
| > LAMc
| >
| > "DL" wrote:
| >
| >> Assuming C is the older drive, and your winxp is sp1 or later.
| >> (If winxp cd is pre sp1 it will only be able to format to 137gb)
| >> Disconect old C, connect new drive, boot from wincd and
| >> partition/format/install
| >> Update.
| >> Connect origonal drive as slave, Install whatever to wherever, recover
| >> data,
| >> if thats what you want to new drive
| >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421/en-us will also be relevent in
| >> recovery of data
| >>
| >> "LAMc Drafting" <LAMc Drafting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
| >> message
| >> news:C22032A3-87D0-449F-A346-004903FA22CF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| >> > I have windows xp home w/sp2 updates installed on my c-drive. I am
| >> replacing
| >> > an older drive with a 400 gig. I want to install windows on my new
| >> > drive
| >> > along with my programs. Any help? Will I be able to use my existing
| >> windows
| >> > on my new drive? Will I have to remove my windows from my current
| >> > C-drive?
| >>
| >>
| >>
|
|
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