Right now, I have two hard drives: a 40GB Seagate that came with my computer back in 2001 and an 80GB Maxtor I added about a year and a half ago. I'm ready to upgrade to a larger hard drive but I have a feeling I'm going to screw something up when I install it.
Back in November, I bought an Athlon 64 3000+ and an ASUS K8V SE Deluxe K8T800 motherboard. One of the things my mobo has support for that I wasn't using was SATA. Now that I'm buying a new hard drive, I'm going to get a 200GB SATA one.
When I get the new hard drive, I plan to install the OS clean and reinstall all of my programs. Give everything a fresh start and all that. Problem is, there's plenty of stuff on both of my hard drives that I still need. Since I believe cooling will be an issue (to say nothing of space), I'm only keeping two of the hard drives in the computer (the forthcoming SATA and the 80GB), though at some later date I might connect the 40GB with an external USB enclosure or something.
In any case, here's my situation...
I need to move what's on the 40GB to the 80GB. And I need to move some of what's on the 80GB to the 200GB.
Ordinarily, I don't think this would be a problem. However, since the 80GB's a boot drive right now, I'm worried Windows is going to freak out like it did when I installed the 80GB and try to make the 80GB the boot drive. Or make the 200GB the boot drive but leave the 80GB as the C drive and pull all its files off there (which is what it did when I installed my 80GB).
So what I need to do is make the new 200GB SATA hard drive Drive C, the 80GB Drive D, my DVD-ROM Drive E, my DVD writer Drive F, and the 40GB temporarily drive G. Once I've migrated its files to the 80GB, I'm going to disconnect it and remove it.
Finally, I sorta Plug-and-Played my motherboard when I installed it in November and some things still don't work right (like my USB 2.0 ports act like USB 1.1). How can I avoid this when I install the new hard drive and do a fresh install of XP Pro? Download the drivers for my hardware and put them somewhere? Where can I put them so that Windows can access them before it attempts to Plug-and-Play everything?
Thanks in advance!
Back in November, I bought an Athlon 64 3000+ and an ASUS K8V SE Deluxe K8T800 motherboard. One of the things my mobo has support for that I wasn't using was SATA. Now that I'm buying a new hard drive, I'm going to get a 200GB SATA one.
When I get the new hard drive, I plan to install the OS clean and reinstall all of my programs. Give everything a fresh start and all that. Problem is, there's plenty of stuff on both of my hard drives that I still need. Since I believe cooling will be an issue (to say nothing of space), I'm only keeping two of the hard drives in the computer (the forthcoming SATA and the 80GB), though at some later date I might connect the 40GB with an external USB enclosure or something.
In any case, here's my situation...
I need to move what's on the 40GB to the 80GB. And I need to move some of what's on the 80GB to the 200GB.
Ordinarily, I don't think this would be a problem. However, since the 80GB's a boot drive right now, I'm worried Windows is going to freak out like it did when I installed the 80GB and try to make the 80GB the boot drive. Or make the 200GB the boot drive but leave the 80GB as the C drive and pull all its files off there (which is what it did when I installed my 80GB).
So what I need to do is make the new 200GB SATA hard drive Drive C, the 80GB Drive D, my DVD-ROM Drive E, my DVD writer Drive F, and the 40GB temporarily drive G. Once I've migrated its files to the 80GB, I'm going to disconnect it and remove it.
Finally, I sorta Plug-and-Played my motherboard when I installed it in November and some things still don't work right (like my USB 2.0 ports act like USB 1.1). How can I avoid this when I install the new hard drive and do a fresh install of XP Pro? Download the drivers for my hardware and put them somewhere? Where can I put them so that Windows can access them before it attempts to Plug-and-Play everything?
Thanks in advance!
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