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| 252871 | 2004-07-16 22:30:00 | Hi Folks :-) Recently bought a new upgrade box with Case, psu m/board, ram. What i want to do is put my current HDD into the new box and install windows into the free space left so i can keep all my current data.. will this work okay? i also have another HDD attached to this pc as a slave drive which only has data.. the other thng i was thinking was to try the same thing on that drive... install windows into the free space... in any case i dont want to burn any data cd-rs or move any data to the slave.. can i do this? just want to get the new box going straight away. help much appreciated! currently running win xp pro with sp1. current box p3 800eb 256 megs pc133 sd ram 2 x 80 gig HDDs. ive had the current box for 5 years :-) new box amd xp2500+ (barton) on a ga-7n400 board with 256 megs ddr ram and yes im gonna be pretty excited with the performance increase :-) |
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| 252872 | 2004-07-16 22:45:00 | Hi Term_X, Chances are you'll get WinXP freezing at mup.sys. I'd suggest you make your current C: drive with the WinXP Installation on it a slave drive in your new box, and throw WinXP on the current "data" drive of yours. You can try putting your current installation directly into the new PC, but when Ive done this with major hardware changes (Sometimes anything more than a CPU... Yeah, that's right, a 1.3 Duron to a 1.6 Duron needed a reinstall). YMMV. Chill. |
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| 252873 | 2004-07-16 22:49:00 | thanks chill :-) ill do what you suggested and put windows on my current data slave drive. so i can just select install windows to the free space and still have all my data there afterwards? do i have to create a partitions for windows specifically? cheers |
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| 252874 | 2004-07-17 00:55:00 | Nup, just select the drive and tell it to "leave drive as-is". The only other options are to format, but you obviously dont want that... ;-) Follow ya nose and you'll be fine :-) Chill. |
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| 252875 | 2004-07-17 10:19:00 | thanks Chill did exactly that and everything was simple from there :-).and here i am running sweet with an amd xp2500+ running beautifully at xp3200 speed :-) :-) :-) thanks man! Term X *very happy* |
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