Re: new hard drive installation

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I made a typo in the Seagate part number. It should read ST380011A.


"Roy Colson" <rcolsonNoSpam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The drive is 80 GB. I have both an original SP1 and a slipped streamed
SP2.

"Jerry" <NoSpamChiefZeke@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Before you even start installing - what size is the drive and what
version of XP is on the CD? If the drive is larger than 137Gb then the XP
CD must be SP1 or SP2.

"Roy Colson" <rcolsonNoSpam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am replacing a Maxtor 6E030L0 that Maxtors diagnostics tells me that it
is failing.

I will replace it with a Seagate Barracuda ST389911A.

My computer is a Dell Dimension 2350 running XP Home.

I intend to do a clean install of windows on the new drive. My question
is am I better off using Seagate's Disk Wizard or my Windows
reinstallation CD to partition and format the new drive.

Thanks,

Roy







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