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Installing new hard drive

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tomstevens26

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Hey everyone!

Well, my new 80GB WD SE should be here some time this afternoon. I wanted to run these ideas past everyone and see if you guys have any comments, advice, etc... I'm currently running the following on a DFI AK75-EC mobo with 512MB RAM and WinXP Pro.

Primary IDE: Maxtor 30GB ATA/100 7200 RPM (Master) and a 15GB ATA/66 5400RPM (Slave)
Secondary IDE: LiteOn 40x12x48x CD-RW (Master) LiteOn 16x DVD (Slave)

The new 80GB drive will replace (as crazy as this sounds) the 30GB drive. What I'm going to do is:

Pull one of the drives on the secondary channel.
Install the new drive here temporarily.
Boot with a floppy that has the Western Digital Lifeguard software.
Using the WD software, I'm going to copy the 30GB drive to the 80GB.
Pull the Maxtor, pull the WD.
Set the WD as Master (if it isn't already) and install it on the Primary channel.
Replace either the CDRW or DVD, whichever I pulled in the first step.

Does this all sound OK? Am I missing anything? Thanks for any input!

Oh, and if it matters, neither of the drives are split into multiple partitions.

Tom
 
Sounds good. Does the WD software do the same thing as Ghost? Ghost never fails me. If it does, you are all set.
 
Originally posted by: ericboo
Sounds good. Does the WD software do the same thing as Ghost? Ghost never fails me. If it does, you are all set.
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Thanks for the reply! The only thing I know about the software is that is can do some diagnostic work, in addition to copying one drive to another. The website said it will handle NTFS partitions so hopefully I won't run into any problems. This is what WD's website suggested using when copying all of your information from your current drive to your their new one. If all else fails then I can try Ghost.

Tom
 
Make sure the boot sector is copied to the new WD drive or else windows will refuse to boot. If you have boot problems, you can fix it in the windows system recovery (search for it on here... im too lazy to explain, sorry).

-psianime
 
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