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| Thread ID: 33464 | 2003-05-17 02:47:00 | How do I nstall a new hard drive?,the easy way! | artyone (3741) | Press F1 |
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| 144945 | 2003-05-17 02:47:00 | I've just set up new PC for internet use,bought it on Trade me and the latest part is a 233MHz CPU I found on the street,and the 1.6Gb HDD is western digital which I'm told will eventually lockup,given the amount of times the system freezes,which is quite often. So I'm bidding on a seagate,which I've heard is much better,and the question is about putting the new one in as slave,swapping over all the files,then making it master and clearing the old one and using it merely as storage.Is this a simple procedure? Could someone run through the process?,the OS is 98 SE. |
artyone (3741) | ||
| 144946 | 2003-05-17 03:43:00 | might not be your hdd locking up.. could well be the OS (win98 isnt the most stable) or maybe even a lack of ram.. you didnt mention how much ram you've got... What you'll want to do first of all is setup your seagate as a master (easy enough, there's jumpers on the back of the drive and a big sticker on the top of the drive showing the jumper settings) and install your OS of choice onto it. Then plugin your old WD as a slave and fire it up. Once you've got both drives going and you are booting from the Seagate, simply copy your files over from the WD onto the Seagate.. and when you are absolutely sure you've got it all how you want it, format the WD and bob is your mothers brother. |
whetu (237) | ||
| 144947 | 2003-05-17 04:02:00 | Whetu's instructions should see you right but if you are buying a Seagate HDD they used to come with excellent instructions plus software to allow you to transfer your data from another hard drive. I would imagine they still do. You could also have a look at their website for more information as it was very helpful the last time I looked. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 144948 | 2003-05-17 04:05:00 | Is there going to be HDD detection issues? ie: will it a machine of that age have auto detection? | wotz (335) | ||
| 144949 | 2003-05-17 04:09:00 | A second-hand Seagate might not come with the software. :-( | Graham L (2) | ||
| 144950 | 2003-05-17 05:34:00 | That is true, Graham. I missed the bit about "bidding" and thought it was a new one. The last time I looked a year or so ago Seagate had software available for downloading from their site but it may not be as comprehensive as that which comes with the hard drive, of course. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 144951 | 2003-05-17 09:42:00 | You are right Susan. Before the Seagate drive is put in and screwed down as it were it's best to get the serial number of the drive. Last time I looked Seagate web site wanted the serial before downloading the software. Just a thought. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 144952 | 2003-05-17 22:12:00 | jsut copying files from one drive to another will NOT give you a bootable harddrive.............. | drcspy (146) | ||
| 144953 | 2003-05-17 23:31:00 | The PC's got 64Mb of ram,to clear up a point,and I kinda get it,its a matter of starting agin with the new HDD and then putting the old one in as slave and copying accross. | artyone (3741) | ||
| 144954 | 2003-05-17 23:31:00 | I would agree with the statement "just copy from drive to drive will not give you a bootable drive", because copy will not take hidden files, but... XXcopy will ( 32 bit version of XCopy). This web site should give you the information you need to do this www.infinisource.com I would use xxcopy as xcopy doesn't support long file names, xxcopy is included with 98se and I think the switches are the same if you what to check type "xxcopy/?" at the command prompt in 98. The big thing to remember here though if you do use the xcopy method to transfer from one hard disk to another, You take ALL the problems that where on other disk to the new disk. I would recommend a fresh install on your new disk |
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