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Installing a New Hard Drive

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A friend has used up all 40GB of his Fujitsu hard drive in his HP system and he's getting another. I recommended he get the 120GB Maxtor with 8MB Cache from Best Buy (about $60 after rebates *thank god for the hot deals section*) anyways, I'm going to be putting it in for him. Now I have build my computer but I'm still not totally sure on how to upgrade a hard drive. He's going to keep his existing one to boot off XP and have stuff stored on but he really needs a new hard drive. Anyways, how do I go about putting this in? I know how to physically put the hard drive in but I'm not too good with the software part. First, what would I set the jumper to? I believe Slave. Second, he has Windows XP on the hard drive so when I turn the computer on, would Windows bring up a formatting option for me to format it to FAT32 (the existing hard drive is)? Should I install the MaxBlast software? I only want one partition on it. Thanks!
 
Install the drive as slave or cable select the instructions that come with the drive should help since it's not a bare drive. When Xp boots it should detect the drive and prompt you from there on out😀 goodluck!
 
what does the XP prompt look like? i figure since it's XP, one of the easiest O/S's to use, it would pop up with a bubble and say new hardware. where do I get to choose the partitions and FAT32? is it all included with the prompt?
 
i think the prompt is upon bootup (i could be mistaken) but long story short, it's really, really easy to install so go at it. No need for additional software.
 
1. change hdd jumper to slave
2. hook hdd up with slave and power
3. turn on XP
4. "Start" > "RUN" > type diskmgmt.msc
5. right click new hdd and format.
 
Originally posted by: Sid59
1. change hdd jumper to slave
2. hook hdd up with slave and power
3. turn on XP
4. "Start" > "RUN" > type diskmgmt.msc
5. right click new hdd and format.
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thanks all!
 
When you bring up that Disk Management console and format the drive, you can partition the drive from there as well.

FYI, your computer would run faster if it booted from the 120 gig drive since it has an 8 meg cache. If you dont want to mess with transferring the data over, then dont bother buying the 8 meg cache drive, just get a 2 meg cache and save a couple of bucks.
 
well...the 120gb with 8mb cache was $60 after rebates...

wait a sec.....transfering data over...hmm...it's the same pc...norton ghost?
 
Originally posted by: benchiu
When you bring up that Disk Management console and format the drive, you can partition the drive from there as well.

FYI, your computer would run faster if it booted from the 120 gig drive since it has an 8 meg cache. If you dont want to mess with transferring the data over, then dont bother buying the 8 meg cache drive, just get a 2 meg cache and save a couple of bucks.
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yeah you could ghost the drive over, but is it one of those mini hp pc's.. or is it a bigger sized case... because on the mini ones you can only have room for one hard drive.
 
Originally posted by: Paulson
yeah you could ghost the drive over, but is it one of those mini hp pc's.. or is it a bigger sized case... because on the mini ones you can only have room for one hard drive.
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I was also thinking about this. That hard drive with the 8mb cache and the 7200 will generate too much heat in a small case if it's the case here IMHO. Heat=dead hard drive faster.

 
He saved a lot of money on the drive, make him spend some of it for a cheap ($20-30) case that would have better airflow, and probably a better power supply than the 150W or so the HP comes with. Then no problem fitting both drives. Oh, one more consideration is if this system came with the HP hidden restore partition...can't remember if Ghost plays well with that or not.
 
I think Ghost copies everything bit for bit on the hard drive, so I'm pretty sure it'll pick up the hidden partition.
 
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