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| 676917 | 2008-06-09 21:21:00 | I have a 2 year old Laptop with twin 80GB hard drives. The C:\ drive has had a lot of use in that time and I was wondering how I could swap the drives so as C:\ is on the second drive. The second drive has had hardly any use in that time. I am giving the lappy to my daughter when we visit her in Sydney later in the year and I would hate any problems to arise for her. I have backup images using Acronis 10 for use. Using XP SP3 Thanks Ken :thanks |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 676918 | 2008-06-09 21:35:00 | Two HDDs, or two partitions on one HDD? Laptops with 2 hdds are rather unusual. IF your not sure, go to control panel/classic view/admin tools/ pc management/disk management |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 676919 | 2008-06-09 21:39:00 | Twin hard drives at 80GB each. There are quite a few with this setup. Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 676920 | 2008-06-09 21:43:00 | Whats the model of the Laptop? Even though in My Computer they appear as two separate drives, it's more likely it's a 160GB drive thats been partitioned. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 676921 | 2008-06-09 21:53:00 | HP dv8212tx 1.83 Core duo Device manager shows 2 hard drives Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 676922 | 2008-06-09 22:04:00 | Right you are boss. h10032.www1.hp.com You can do that, but you'd need to re-install XP on the new C: If you restored from a backup, you'd just be putting everything back on there, so theres not much point in that, unless you only backed up select stuff. Do you know what you were backing up with Acronis? I'd be inclined to copy anything important on the D: to the C:, then use Acronis to do a C: to D: clone, then after verifying that all the data is on the D:, throw in a recovery disk if you have one, and go to manufacturers spec, or throw a XP disk in and do a clean install (I'd recommend this option) Just make sure you have a network driver for it before formatting if you take the clean install option. :) |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 676923 | 2008-06-09 22:21:00 | Right you are boss . . www1 . hp . com/ctg/Manual/c00723159 . pdf" target="_blank">h10032 . www1 . hp . com You can do that, but you'd need to re-install XP on the new C: If you restored from a backup, you'd just be putting everything back on there, so theres not much point in that, unless you only backed up select stuff . Do you know what you were backing up with Acronis? Just the OS has been backed up . Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 676924 | 2008-06-09 22:24:00 | Sweet, in that case, go for it. Easiest way: Copy all data from d: to c:, then clone c: to d: (wiping all data already on d: in process) Then format c: and restore the backup onto it. Bingo. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 676925 | 2008-06-09 22:31:00 | After 2 years I don't think swapping drives is likely to improve reliability. The second drive would have been powering up on each boot up even it it never got used. Any drive can fail at any time. Just storing copies of data on both drives would be better. A then back up anything important somewhere else in case the laptop get lost or stolen. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 676926 | 2008-06-09 23:09:00 | Thanks guys. I think I will chew this one over for a while. Ken :thanks |
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