installing new drive

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I want to install a new 80 meg drive and replace my old
7 mg. hard drive. I dont want to use old drive.
and I want to use just one drive letter.
How do I reload windows xp on my new drive and
reactivate windows.

Thanks Ken
 
Hello

Here go's
1. Install the new drive
2. In your Bios set cdrom as bootdevice 1
3. Reboot pc with XP cdrom
4. Follow what is says to do.
5. Once OS and all drivers are loaded
6. Install old drive as a slave
7. Make sure you jumper it correctly
8. COpy your personnal DATA over that you need

http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/basics/activation/

Alvin
 
You should be concerned about the BIOS. Be sure the BIOS
will support the new drive. I would seriously consider
having some partitions on the new drive because it allows
you to keep the operating system and applications on one
partition ( C:\) and data files (My Documents and download
folders) on one or more other partitions.
There is no big advantage to having one partition except it
is easier to setup by the OEMs.

I would install the new drive as master on primary IDE (set
jumpers) and change the jumpers on the old drive to slave if
you leave it on the primary IDE. You can leave it jumpered
as master and put it on the secondary IDE controller. If
you are worried about setup, don't connect the cables until
you have installed your OS and applications.

After your new drive is connected and the BIOS updated (if
needed) and set to boot from the CD drive, boot the
computer, use the tools presented in the menu to partition
and format your drive, and continue to install XP.

Then get XP PowerToys TweakUI and set the My Documents
folder on another partition (if you want). Then Install
your applications. Then hook up your old drive and
move/copy your data to the new drive. I would do fresh
installs of all applications and make sure that I had
planned what I wanted before I did it. Then I'd activate
the new installation. If it has been more than 120 days
since your first activation it will activate automatically
this time.

How to install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316941



|
|
| I want to install a new 80 meg drive and replace my old
| 7 mg. hard drive. I dont want to use old drive.
| and I want to use just one drive letter.
| How do I reload windows xp on my new drive and
| reactivate windows.
|
| Thanks Ken
 
-----Original Message-----
You should be concerned about the BIOS. Be sure the BIOS
will support the new drive. I would seriously consider
having some partitions on the new drive because it allows
you to keep the operating system and applications on one
partition ( C:\) and data files (My Documents and download
folders) on one or more other partitions.
There is no big advantage to having one partition except it
is easier to setup by the OEMs.

I would install the new drive as master on primary IDE (set
jumpers) and change the jumpers on the old drive to slave if
you leave it on the primary IDE. You can leave it jumpered
as master and put it on the secondary IDE controller. If
you are worried about setup, don't connect the cables until
you have installed your OS and applications.

After your new drive is connected and the BIOS updated (if
needed) and set to boot from the CD drive, boot the
computer, use the tools presented in the menu to partition
and format your drive, and continue to install XP.

Then get XP PowerToys TweakUI and set the My Documents
folder on another partition (if you want). Then Install
your applications. Then hook up your old drive and
move/copy your data to the new drive. I would do fresh
installs of all applications and make sure that I had
planned what I wanted before I did it. Then I'd activate
the new installation. If it has been more than 120 days
since your first activation it will activate automatically
this time.

How to install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;316941



|
|
| I want to install a new 80 meg drive and replace my old
| 7 mg. hard drive. I dont want to use old drive.
| and I want to use just one drive letter.
| How do I reload windows xp on my new drive and
| reactivate windows.
|
| Thanks Ken

Thanks for the Help, I didnt know about the 120 day
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Thing on windows XP thanks again
 
Um, are you sure you don't mean 80 gig and not 80 meg? and 7 gig and not 7
meg. Because I don't think windows XP could fit on a 80 meg drive.
 
There is an excellent free utility called Diskwizard available on the
Seagate web site. Don't bother with the Windows version of DW, just the
smaller-to-download floppy disk version. Though meant as a complete setup
suite for Seagate drives, the part you want does work for other
manufacturers' drives. It will make an *exact* copy of one drive onto
another.

I'm working from memory now so take care with these instructions! I'm also
assuming IDE rather than SCSI -- it works for either. It's just that drive
identities are differently labelled. DW has reasonable documentation
anyway.

1. Install your big drive as the slave. Tell the BIOS to discover it.
2. Use Win XP disk utilities to partition and format (NTFS) the big drive.
(DW will do this *only* for Seagate drives.) Obviously be careful when
choosing which one to do.
3. Create a setup floppy using DW.
4. Boot from the DW floppy. Join me in wondering why MS never released a
decent version of DOS!
5. Find the option to make a copy from your small to big drive. Again be
careful with source and destination. Some menu options are Seagate specific
but just ignore them.
6. When done, move jumpers to make big drive the master. Unplug the small
drive.
7. Tell the BIOS to discover the primary drive's characteristics.
8. Boot (hopefully) from the big drive.

If it does not work, just swap drive jumpers to their original settings.
Your old drive remains intact using this procedure because it is all done
from the floppy. Try again. Refer to DW documentation just in case I've
made mistakes.

I can't remember at what stage the partition on the big drive needs to be
made bootable (if at all), but as I recall it's all remarkably
straightforward and satisfying when done.

Richard M.
 
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