RE; installing new hard drive

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george

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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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
.
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When the Ghost "copy" is done, disconnect the "old" master drive on 1th IDE
channel and replace it with the new one. Reconnect the CD drive as master
on the 2nd IDE channel. The system should be able to start up correctly.

Y.
 
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