Installing new hard drive

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george

Iam thinkig about upping my hard drive from 40 to 80 and
was wondering if I can transfer all my data from the 40
to the 80 without having to reformat the hard drive? How
is this done?
 
Hello

You have 2 options
1. Go out and purchase Norton's Ghost 2003
2. Or buy the new drive install your OS on the
new drive and then connect your old drive as a
slave and just move what data you need to move
over.( Make sure that you jumper that drive
correctly when you do this ok)

Alvin
 
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Hello

You have 2 options
1. Go out and purchase Norton's Ghost 2003
2. Or buy the new drive install your OS on the
new drive and then connect your old drive as a
slave and just move what data you need to move
over.( Make sure that you jumper that drive
correctly when you do this ok)

Alvin



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Ihave norton 2003 and it has that. What will it do?
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George:

If you have Norton Ghost 2003, make a boot disk.
Install your new drive as the master on the 2nd IDE
channel, this will probably involve disconnecting your cd-
rom device.
Boot from the Ghost diskette and select IDE 1 as your
source disk and IDE 2 as your destination disk. This will
copy everything from your current disk to your new disk,
to include registry settings, programs data, etc... The
only difference, if done correctly, is that you will have
more free space as your new drive is larger. ;-) If you
feel uncomfortable doing this, read up on Ghost and just
make sure you select the correct drive as your source
drive, if you reverse them, then you will copy your empty
drive onto your current drive, leaving you with two empty
drives.
 
When I install it in place of my cd will it recognize it
as a hard drive then when I am done copying data do I
just install it in place of my old drive?
 
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