Re: adding second hard drive after original crashed

Unplug origonal old failed drive first
Plug in new drive, install win and update
Power down, connect old drive
If it wont start with old drive connected then call the proffessionals

"DERMARINE" <DERMARINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I already have the original hard drive plugged into the motherboard (SATA
hard drives)... should I unplug this first, before proceeding with the
windows installation?

Also, when formatting the partition using the NTFS file system, what is
the
difference between the "quick" option and the regular option?

"DatabaseBen" wrote:

you can hook the old harddrive later on and don't need it for your new
installation.

after you complete the installation and windows works fine. you can then
powerdown your pc and hook the old harddrive up to the other available
connector on that flat ribbon cable. When you power up the pc, it
should
automatically recognize this second hard drive. But if it doesn;t
simply go
into your cmos/bios and use the options to help it locate all your
harddrives.

Afterwards, when you get back into windows, you should be able to see
some
files and folder of the old harddrive in you file explorer.... I think
you
can take it from there....
"DERMARINE" <DERMARINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I know little concerning computer hard drives, motherboards, etc.

I recently got a blue screen that said "unmountable boot volume" and
some
other stuff. I was told that my hard drive was toast, but I might be
able
to
recover some data (pictures mainly) off of it if I got another hard
drive
and
installed it on my computer. I am in the process of doing so, but
want to
make sure I am not ruining the original hard drive data as I go.

I disabled the original hard drive in setup during the boot process
and
installed the new hard drive, partitioned it, and now am trying to
install
windows xp on it. Do I need to do this? Will this erase everything
off
of
the original hard drive? Will this cause a problem when I go back and
enable
the original hard drive, having two sets of windows on my computer?
Please
let me know ASAP. Thanks in advance.





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