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Help A Man Help His Mother In law

Paratus

Paratus

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Heres the problem. My mother-in-laws Dell PIII 667 has 140mb free on her 7.5GB C drive. Needless to say it's running like crap. My father-in-law just installed a new 7200 80GB WD drive. How can I move the entire contents of the C drive to the new E: Drive and then turn the E: drive (80GB WD) into the C drive?

Help would be appreciated

Thanks!
 
There should be a disk that came with the WD which enables them to make the new drive the bootable one, by ghosting the original. You'd need to tell the computer that the new drive will be the boot drive by setting jumpers I suppose.


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Also FYI, if it has WinME or WinXP then it may have quite an accumulation of System Restore files. I was working on one co-worker's home system, a Dell Dementia 4600, and of the ~45GB of files on the hard drive, over 30GB was System Restore files 😕

Never a bad time to check out her Windows updates, check for spyware/adware using Spybot and Ad-Aware Personal, make sure her antivirus protection is up-to-date or else get her some new antivirus, and make sure she's got firewall protection going.
 
Originally posted by: morkinva
There should be a disk that came with the WD which enables them to make the new drive the bootable one, by ghosting the original. You'd need to tell the computer that the new drive will be the boot drive by setting jumpers I suppose.


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Sounds good!

I'll check for the disk.
 
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Also FYI, if it has WinME or WinXP then it may have quite an accumulation of System Restore files. I was working on one co-worker's home system, a Dell Dementia 4600, and of the ~45GB of files on the hard drive, over 30GB was System Restore files 😕

Never a bad time to check out her Windows updates, check for spyware/adware using Spybot and Ad-Aware Personal, make sure her antivirus protection is up-to-date or else get her some new antivirus, and make sure she's got firewall protection going.
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Ahh mechBegon patron saint of Tech Support!

I'll check to see how many system restore files she's got.

She's got an up to date copy of Norton, Adaware, and Zone alarm working. I did a scan and only found a couple of tracking cookies. Only thing missing is XP SP2 but I don't have room to install it yet. Plus my father-in-law wants to hold off on it till more of the bugs are worked out. (I already have it installed on my sig computers however)
 
Ahh mechBegon patron saint of Tech Support!
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It might also have a ji-normous quantity of Temporary Internet Files and Recycle Bin, if it's as old as it sounds :Q
 
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