Harry's New Hardrive

Come on Chaps, who can help Harry ?. :confused:

I have purchased a new Maxtor Hd. 80G.
To replace my Maxtor 20Gb.

Once I have removed the 20Gb. And fitted the 80Gb.
Can anyone possibly talk me through what I do next, do I need
A BootDisk for XP. Pro. ?.
I would really appreciate it if someone can help me up to the point of installing my personal files.

The trouble is, my memory banks are going due to age I need
some help please, it happens to us all.

I think I would like to partition the new drive and install my system on a free 10Gb. as it would then be there if ever I wanted
to do a format on the working 70Gb. remaing.

I think thats the general idea if you know what i mean, as I'm
sure I don't ? . :D

Thanking anyone who can help.

Semper in excreta somnus solus profundum variat.
HarryOatcake

just whack your XP cd in and set the Cd drive as bootable in the bios. easy peasy

Many Thanks mgh0,
for your reply, I hope you know what I am doing. :D

Regards.
HarryOatcake.

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Originally posted by mgh0
just whack your XP cd in and set the Cd drive as bootable in the bios. easy peasy

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Do what he said, Windows XP Installer will let you create a 10gb partition (you can create the other partition in Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Manager->Disc Management once Windows is installed).

After the initial windows XP install, you will need to change the boot device from CDrom to HDD0 (or serial ATA is its a SATA HDD).

;) Definitely use NTFS though, if using FAT32 (dual booting?) then use 8GB (or 16GB) instead of 10GB for the first partn to avoid the cluster size doubling. NTFS is much better and it is best to use this for the second large partn, with FAT32 keep it to 32GB max, but even that's still a bit clunky and very wasteful. Only Win2000 & XP can really handle modern NTFS, use FAT32 if you want to be able to access files via a bootdisk or from another OS.

Many Thanks Austin,
much appreciate the fact that you responded to the Oatcake
appeal, concerning my new hardive.

Regards.
H.

Dont all the HD manufacturers these days offer with their free software an option to transfer all your existing data (complete with windows install intact) across to the new drive?

I know I got this option with the seagate software. The software tells you what you need to do (fool proof) precisely even telling you when to swap IDE cables (if necessary) and change master/slave jumpers.

;) I think retail drives do but OEM don't. Any way you can download the sw from the respective site such as Maxtor ... can't rem the name of the sw (Blast?). Alternatives to the preferred Norton Ghost are Powerquest drive copy, drive image, WD's Data Lifeguard ( http://support.wdc.com/download/ ). I have heard it's worth checking out HDcopy ...

http://212.223.28.218/english/HDCOPY/features.htm

http://212.223.28.218/zip/HDCOPY%20Home%20Setup.exe