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Hard Drive Upgrade (SATA/IDE)?
I'm upgrading the computer my folks have and have a question on moving everything over from one HDD to the other. The old HDD is a 15gb IDE drive and the new one I installed is a 250gb SATA II. (I also installed a SATA DVD drive). I was able to get both drives functioning (as well as the DVD) but in the BIOS, the hard drives show as Masters on different IDE channels (and the DVD as a secondary under the new hard drive). Since the old hard drive is small, what I want to be able to do is just install XP onto the new drive, move the other files over from the smaller drive and then pull the small one out altogether. My question is essentially whether or not I'm going to have any issues once I pull the small drive out as far as the BIOS recognizing the remaining disk. Should this whole thing just be automatic? Also, will I be able to reassign the new drive as the C: drive just for ease of future use? Any other advice would be appreciated.
James - would that be true even if I don't delete the OS from the original drive until I'm sure everything would be working correctly??
The new drive is already in and partitioned/formatted. I want to do this without swapping anything out again if possible.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
If you want to keep everything (Data, Programs, Operating System) intact, try using Clonezilla. Its a free, open-source, cloning program that will do a byte-by-byte copy from one hard drive to another. You can then swap the 250 GB drive into the system, and remove the 15 GB drive. You will just need to (A) create a new partition, as clonezilla will only use 15 GB of the 250 GB, leaving the rest unpartitioned or (B) extend the original partition to make use of the whole drive. Check below for a tutorial on how to use Clonezilla; it's for multi boot systems, but the same steps hold true for copying single systems also.
Source(s): http://blog.mediabymrb.com/?page_id=26 - Anonymous1 decade ago
Your question is a little complicated to answer but i would leave the old drive out of the equation for now.
Install the sata drives and if your bios allows set the DvD drive as the first drive and the new hard drive to second and set the boot order to boot from the DvD drive first and the hard drive second.
If installing Windows XP you will need the raid drivers from your computer or motherboard manufacturer as XP has no idea what a sata drive is. If the computer has a floppy drive you can install the drivers to a floppy disk and install them when the Windows install asks for 3rd party drivers. A cd will work also.
Once Windows is installed and working you can install the old 15 gig drive on the IDE cable.
When you reboot the drive should be detected. You can copy the files you want through the My Computer icon (Whatever the drive letter assigned to it) as i think it's the easiest way.
If everything works the way it should the whole process should be easy.
With computers you never know however.
- 1 decade ago
Heres what you should do.
1. Insert new drive
2. Remove old one.
3. install XP onto new drive
4. Insert old drive
5. Transfer files
6. Remove old drive.
Yes, When you install windows it will automatically name your new drive as C. Most Bios's have a plug in and play mode for hard drives, much like a usb flash disk. So you can insert and remove as many times as you want. But remember, your computer MUST be turned off, and unplugged if you dont want to be shocked when removing/reinserting your drives.
Source(s): My experience as a computer technician. - 1 decade ago
if you install the new drive with OS, the new drive becomes C:\ already.
and you shouldn't have any problem after you take out the drive.
