Re: installation

From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 12:13:55 -0500

Disconnect the small (old) hard drive. Install the 80 GB
drive as master on the IDE cable.
Install XP, reinstall your applications. Copy data files
from the old drive after you connect it as a slave.

You may want to partition your new drive so you have a
partition for the OS (XP), applications and data. When
everything is as you want it, you can use the old drive as a
backup for your documents. 

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"TPatrick" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in 
message news:0d6101c4abc6$0e6f0e50$a401280a@phx.gbl...
|I built my own computer and am having a problem
| installing any O/S.  ME or XP on a new 80 gig drive.  The
| O/S currently is XP on a 9gig drive that I had all kinds
| of problems getting to run. I suspect a mobo problem in
| the IDE, already flashed the BIOS  No luck.  Since I have
| registered the XP with the current mobo and small drive
| what will microsoft do when/if I replace the mobo and
| main drive and use the same XP that I already purchsed
| for this computer? Current mobo SOYO 8i465e Dragon 2
| considering Intel.

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