Installing New Hard Drive

Zebra

aliEnRIK wrote: »

NEW drive as the slave

Thanks - so I want the new drive in the middle of the cable and the old one at the end?

Sorry for being a pain - never been inside the back of the pc before.

Zebra

No - i wanted to keep windows on the old drive and all other programs and documents etc on the new drive

basmic

Are you going to use just the 160gb drive - or are you going to keep Windows on the 10gb, and use the 160gb as a storage drive?

If the latter, than that's a very bad idea - the 10gb drive IS going to be slower than a properly working 160gb drive. No doubt about it, for even a second!

If I were the OP, I would reinstall the OS on the 160gb drive, set it as a master. Copy the data he needs from the old 10gb drive, set as a slave. Disconnect 10gb drive, and keep for emergency backups.

basmic

Zebra wrote: »

No - i wanted to keep windows on the old drive and all other programs and documents etc on the new drive

That's going to result in a slow machine then.

Consider partitioning the new drive, if you want to keep program files and windows on seperate drive letters.

Zebra

Ok - so the best way is to copy the whole lot inc windows to the new drive?

What if anything will the old drive be used for?

Zebra

Ive got both drives installed now - how do I transfer all the data from the old one to the new one?

basmic

You need to use some harddrive cloning software.

Try HDClone: http://www.miray.de/products/sat.hdclone.html#free

Zebra

Seems to be geting more and more complicated - I thought it would be straightforward enough to add another hard drive to my existing one.

Out of my depth here so think [EMAIL="i@ll"]i'll[/EMAIL] take it in somewhere.

Thanks for all your advice.

basmic

If you want to copy the 10gb drive to the 160gb drive, the cloning software will do that - you will need to extract the IMG file to a floppy disk, startup your computer using the floppy disk, and the program will load.

I would recommend doing a disk>disk copy.

Zebra

Sorry Basmic - thanks for all your advice, but I'm totally lost now - think I need some professional help.

I thought I could just add a new drive and transfer my data from one to another - but all this talk of masters and slaves, cloning and IMG files is way over my head.