New Hard Drive

[redbaron]

I have an IBM APTIVA with a 6Gb Hard Drive which I am finding a bit on the small side. I have purchased a 17Gb Seagate Hard Drive and just need some answers to a few questions-
1. Can I just unplug my 6Gb Drive, then plug in the 17Gb Drive and boot up with my IBM Start Up disk, or my Norton Recovery Disks?
2. My IBM Start Up disk will only work on IBM Hardware, will it install my software on the Seagate drive?
3. Do I need to get some Software to do this job, or is it just a matter of unplug the OLD HD and plug in the NEW HD?
Any help in this matter would be most appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Ulysses]

Here's an article on setting up a new HDD:

http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/solutions/0,8224,2586419,00.html

 

[novice]

You can just remove your old hard drive and install your new drive. Make sure your new drive is jumpered as Master. Then simply put your sytem restore CD in your CD rom drive. It will automatically reformat your new hard drive and install all the IBM programs. Of course, none of your data from your old drive will be on the new one, but it will restore the original system as it came from IBM with Windows 98, etc. I tried to install a second drive in mine and keep the 6 gig Quantum Bigfoot as the master drive, but the Western Digital drive just would not function as a slave drive to the Quantum. The WD installed fine as the master, though. Later (after the WD failed) I reinstalled the original Quantum drive and it retained all the original files, etc. so the data wasn't lost. You might try to install your new drive as a slave to your 6 gig drive. Then you could move your important files to the new drive. If you will replace your existing drive, you will probably see an improvement in your system's performance, if your existing drive is a Bigfoot. The Bigfoots are very, very slow. If you are successful in installing the new drive as a slave, then you could use partition magic or Norton Ghost to copy the old drive on to the new drive, then perhaps rejumper the new drive as master and retain all your old files and gain some improved performance. Once you are sure all your old data is successfully moved to the new drive, you could reformat the old drive and reinstall it as a slave and use it for additional storage, or backup purposes.
Chuck

 

[redbaron]

Thanks for all your help, I really appreciate it, it makes what appeared to be a complicated task seem a bit easier.

 

[Eli]

One site. http://www.storagereview.com.


The IBM 75GXP is the current IDE champion. Get it. Love it. Fill it up.

 

[oldfart]

You can use Norton Ghost to completely clone your old HD onto the new one.