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| Thread ID: 59163 | 2005-06-23 11:43:00 | HDD installation advice | Ollie123 (4243) | Press F1 |
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| 366408 | 2005-06-23 11:43:00 | Just after some advice here, My computer has 2 hard drives, 1 8GB and 1 20GB that show up as one 28GB hard drive in My Computer. I have brought a 200GB hard drive and want to install it as the master and make the 20GB the slave. How can I find out what files are installed on the 8GB and which are installed on the 20GB so I can put all of the files I want to keep onto the 20GB drive. Hope I've made some sense here. Thanks |
Ollie123 (4243) | ||
| 366409 | 2005-06-23 11:56:00 | i suspect you proberly have a 30 gig drive thats been partitoned into 2 drives. its very rare to have 2 sperate drives made as one drive. easiest way here is to install drive and boot useing a boot disk and image the 2 existing drive over to the new drive. nortons ghost is an excelent program for this tho your hardrive manafacture proberly has a free program to do this. if done correctly it will copy everthing over keeping the same size partions. you can then partition and formatt he remaining space on the drive. naturally make backups as if it fails, simply format reinstall everything on the new drive. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 366410 | 2005-06-23 11:57:00 | Do you mean you have a single physical ~30 gig hard drive that has two partitions, 8 gig and 20 gig? | Jen (38) | ||
| 366411 | 2005-06-23 12:06:00 | Pretty sure we started off with an 8GB drive and the got a second 20GB installed. Since they show up as one 28.6GB drive, is there any way I could find out wether there are 2 drives without looking inside the case? |
Ollie123 (4243) | ||
| 366412 | 2005-06-23 12:16:00 | Yep go to Device Manager and expand disk drives, your drives will be listed | bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 366413 | 2005-06-23 12:23:00 | Na, just shows one entry, guess I'll find out when I open up the case. Anyway, what is the best way to go about cleaning out my old hard drives. Have made a promise to protect the new drive from my messy ways and keep it clean from all of the crap that is on the old drive. Thanks for the reply's people. |
Ollie123 (4243) | ||
| 366414 | 2005-06-23 20:22:00 | Plug in the new one. Attach the old one(or the old one(S) one at a time as slave. File copy over what stuff you want. With the new one, I have mine split into 2. C: has the O/S and NOTHING else. D: has a number of folders such as: Games Business etc Then: Business for instance, is then sub-divided into a number of other folders - My software tools, accounts stuff, website files and so on. If I have several related icons on the desktop I make a folder for them. I clean out the temp folders all the time. If I'm not using some program for ages, its deleted. It can always be reinstalled. Photos are regularly uploaded for professional printing then deleted. So its just basic house-keeping and not letting the clutter accumulate. The delete key is well used. And Add/Remove. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 366415 | 2005-06-23 22:10:00 | Take a look at the forum's Partitioning FAQ (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz ) for some good advice on managing your new hard drive. | FoxyMX (5) | ||
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