Re: Hard drive cleaning
- From: "Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:03:44 -0400
Anna wrote:
Mark:
I'm guessing that you *really* do know what you'd like to do, so the
following is probably merely a "re:run" of your intentions...
Get yourself a nice, new HDD and fresh install a copy of XP onto it.
They're (the HDDs I mean) are certainly cheap enough these days). The
only pain here will, of course, be installing all the critical updates
since SP2 (I'm assuming that you'll be working with an XP installation CD
that contains SP2). Hopefully, you have a broadband connection so that
that chore shouldn't be too onerous.
Then, of course, install whatever programs & user-created data you want
onto the new drive (little-by-little) and see how it goes.
Anna
"pheasant" <kiavan02@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
Well; I've got my options in mind, but appreciate bouncing it off others,
as usually 2 ideas or more will often come up with a better solution, or
confirm the one I'd choose as the best option.
I'm leaning toward another internal, but am sort of concerned how XP may
react when the old drive when it finds another "C" drive has replaced it.
Don't know if it will have a hissy and refuse to boot, look to the new and
reassign the old "C" to an unused letter(hopefully), or look to the old
and reassign the newly installed drive/OS.
Last build I did, my main drive is H, didn't know that putting in a memory
card reader before initial boot would result in that happening, no big
deal, but with an upgrade, don't know how it will react.
Maybe that's not much of an issue for a savvy tech, but I'm just a shade
tree tinkerer.
Mark:
The potential problem you mention can be avoided by simply installing the XP
OS onto the new HDD while ensuring that no other storage devices are
connected in the system at the time of that installation. That includes, of
course, your old HDD.
Since the new HDD will serve as your boot drive it should be connected as
the Primary Master - assuming it's a PATA HDD, or connected to the
motherboard's SATA0 (or SATA1) connector - assuming it's a SATA HDD. I can't
remember if you previously indicated what types of HDDs you'll be working
with.
Finally, after you've installed the XP OS onto the new drive and determine
that it's properly functioning, you'll connect your old HDD as a Slave to
the PM boot drive or anywhere on the secondary IDE channel (again, if it's a
PATA HDD) or to a secondary SATA connector if it's a SATA HDD.
Upon that initial boot while both HDDs are connected it would be wise to
access your motherboard's BIOS and ensure that the boot priority order has
been properly set.
The most important item in all of this is as I've stated in my first
paragraph above. Make sure the *only* HDD or storage device connected at the
time you install the XP OS onto your new HDD is that new HDD.
Anna
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