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| Thread ID: 56731 | 2005-04-13 13:24:00 | Buying a new hard drive | Ollie123 (4243) | Press F1 |
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| 344686 | 2005-04-15 12:55:00 | I also recommend Seagate. SATA, have a look on the motherboard for about 1cm wide red plugs, or check the manuel. Ghost or similar will copy everything: OS, settings, files, programs, everything. The easiest way would be to get an standard drive and just install it as a slave, format, and move the files accross. There are even ways to redirect "My Documents" to the new drive. |
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| 344687 | 2005-04-15 19:51:00 | Seagate Diskwizard www.seagate.com | PaulD (232) | ||
| 344688 | 2005-04-16 03:42:00 | What I would do if it were me is unplug your old hard drive, install the new one as master, partition as required (see the forum's Partitioning FAQ for tips) then format and install Windows . I would also recommend reading this article ( . com/review . php?r=281" target="_blank">short-media . com) for setting up your hard drive . Once you have Windows up and running complete with Service Packs and critical updates, etc plug your old hard drive back in as a slave and install your programs to the new HDD as required . You can either leave your data on the old drive or copy it to a new Data partition on your new drive . This way is more time consuming than Ghosting or imaging your old drive to your new drive but the benefit is that everything is all nice and fresh rather than littered with junk from the old setup . |
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| 344689 | 2005-04-16 11:39:00 | Yeah, good idea FoxyMX. My current HDD will contain alot of rubbish that I don't need, always nice to start off fresh. Thanks everyone, will read through the atricles and make my mind up from there. |
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