Re: Help with replacing existing (full) HDD

From: Rodney Kelp (Rodneykelp605_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/09/05 

Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 09:58:08 -0500

Throw your 4.5 gig in the garbage. Repartition your 120 into a single volume
and format it, then reload XP, your programs and then import your data from
backups.
People are always creating multiple partitions that run out of room and are
no good for backups;(since a hd failure will loose all backups on other
partitions). You could use your old 4.5 for backup data as a secondary drive
but that's the same size as a dvd r so unneeded if you hava a dvd burner.

"Andy Pomfret" <andy@pomfret.org.uk> wrote in message
news:uDNoQdj9EHA.3624@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hello
> I am about to change one of my two (2) physical disks because at 4.5gb it
> is now too small.
>
> I have squeezed Win XP Pro SP2 onto it but I keep getting warnings that my
> disk has too little free space for OS to operate properly, also I find
> that it 'hangs/stops' whilst there is a frenetic background disc activity,
> which presumably means that space is being created so that programs can
> operate etc. So it is overdue for a change.
>
> So, I presently have two physical disks in my computer. One is 4.5 gb
> partitioned into 3 - C:\ is 4.4gb, D:\ is 50 mb and unused, E:\ is also
> 50mb and unused. It's like that due to historical reasons.
>
> Second physical disk is 120gb partitioned into 3 equal parts. This disk
> holds the majority of my programs, all my data and backups.
>
> C:\ partition on 1st physical drive contains Win XP OS and some programs
> that will not work on any other partition.
>
> My question is (after data backup) can I just removed the small 1st
> physical drive and fit the new 120gb disk. Also, would I again have to
> partition it into 3 partitions so that it would read the data on the 2nd
> physical disk? The drive letters on this disk are F:, G:, H:. The new
> drive would be NTFS after installing Win XP OS on the new physical disk,
> the old drives are FAT32.
>
> OR, can I just takeout my old 1st physical HDD and replace with new
> (empty) HDD then format (using windows XP Pro) into only one large
> partition. Would it then read the data on the second (existing) physical
> HDD?
>
> Any help or advice greatly appreciated.
>
> Andy Pomfret
>

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