Re: New HD Suggestions?

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Navyguy wrote:
On May 29, 9:56 pm, "Richard Urban"
<richardurbanREMOVET...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Please, be aware!

If your original HD was having many problems as you stated I would certainly
NOT clone that drive to the new drive. I would start fresh with the new
drive.

The reason for this is that you have absolutely no idea as to what type of
file/folder/data corruption exists on the old drive. Cloning to a new drive
will be a recipe for immediate or future disaster. Three months from now you
may have problems with a seldom used program and you will be tearing your
hair out trying to find the cause.

You clone a "known good" drive to a known good drive.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

"Navyguy" <magine...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with XP SP3, with DSL connection. I have
Avira free antivirus version, Windows firewall, Spybot and Hive
Cleanup. All of these have run well together and I have had no
problems.
For several months I have had HD problems that I have been unable to
resolve despite generous help from several people. I've decided that
the best and easiest solution would be to just buy another, larger,
more reliable HD. I intially replaced the original HD with a 160GB
Seagate PATA100 which came with a one time use Acronis software to
enable me to transfer files frome one HD to another. I've looked on
Newegg but I couldn't find anything but perhaps it was just me. So can
anyone recommend a good HD which includes instructions for
installation and appropriate software for transferring files and where
to purchase it?
Thanks,
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This is allot of good information all of you have given and I
certainly appreciate it. Although I have to delve into the links and
contents and admit that I'm not that computer literate although
probably more so than allot of people and if the directions are not
too technical I can follow them. I think however Richard has brought
up an important point. Let me just briefly explain the problems I am
having and have tried for months to resolve without success:
1. Initially my computer was infected with a trojan horse virus. The
trojan horse virus may or may not still be in the system. I have no
way of knowing but others have suggested that if I have deleted,
formatted and reinstalled XP it shouldn't be there. I have also
fomrmatted the drive as Linux using a Linux CD.
2.corrupted MFT files
3. When doing the chkdsk it found files errors and subsquently I'm
unable to complete a chkdsk /f or chkdsk /r
4. The HD has separated into (2) partitions

I only have the (1) HD but it fragmented the first time I reinstalled
XP and did it on its own and I don't know why it did it. I've tried
numerous attempts to merge them back together but nothing works. In
any case the HD remains fragmented into:

Disk 0 Basic 149.05 GB (C:)127.99GB(NTFS)Healthy(System)21.06GB
Unallocated.

So it seems the best possible solution is to buy (2) Seagate 160HD's,
then install a fresh copy of XP, download all the updates etc. Now I
have my files backed up on CD's so is there a risk of using them the
same as copying from HD to HD? Otherwise how will I be able to move my
files to the new HD?

I only mentioned getting a new fan because of the age of the computer
although it still runs fine. I just thought that if I had the computer
open maybe it would be a good idea?


Thoughts/Suggestions?
Robert


Put your new hard drives into the computer and reinstall the OS, hardware(drivers), programs, all patches and updates. Buy a self powered USB hard drive enclosure. Put your old HD into that. After you are running the NEW windows, plug the HD enclosure into a USB port. Open 'My Computer'. You should see the USB enclosure and all of its files. You can copy files from here back to your new hard drive. HTH.

--
Ed Mc Nam vet '66-'67


Semper Fi
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