Re: Changing Hard Drives

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And I'm going to beat this to death.
Copy using the WD program from bootable removable media. REMOVE the
original hard drive. Install the new hard drive as the master.
AFTER you've done this and booted off the new hard drive, you may reinstall
the old hard drive as slave or whatever.
Don't forget the pin configurations for WD include either a master/alone and
master w/slave. Separate pinout options. Not the same things.

It should not be necessary to modify any bios settings for any ide connected
devices. Nor, will I confuse you with a boot manager. You don't sound
ready for that.

wdc.com support offers many insights on use of the copying software you are
referencing. The software, when installed to XP, also offers many help
references. This is the windows version, but not used for cloning a hard
drive containing XP..

"REDWAGON" <REDWAGON@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:84357F27-2F58-4B3A-B922-DCCB8FD1C0C5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I Just purchased a new (retail) Western Digital 120GB HD. Existing HD is a
60
> GB drive. The software that came with the new HD indicates an option to
> transfer all of the system from the old drive to the new drive. I
understand
> all of the pin settings required when doing this transfer and hooking up
the
> cables correctly, no problem. My question is: When using the software that
WD
> has to do this transfer from the old drive to the new one, does it
transfer
> everything including the operating system (XP Home) and all of my personal
> files ? and after the transfer, is the old drive void of any of the old
> operating system ?
>
> I know this subject has been beaten to death by others but would like to
> make sure everything goes the way I expect it will before proceeding.
Thanks
> for your information and help.
>
> Redwagon....
>


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