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[Brian1154]

just found this site..looks great with a lot of helpfull people,
anyhow..am running a P2 400/128mb/4.3gb hd. cd standard stuff
ok just bought a p3 600 and 10gb hd,cdr
would like to change the hd out but keep all my current info are they an easy way to do this, can change the rest out..just never changed a hd out before.
thank you all in advance for your help

[ixl]

Originally posted by Brian1154:
just found this site..looks great with a lot of helpfull people,

Thanks!

anyhow..am running a P2 400/128mb/4.3gb hd. cd standard stuff
ok just bought a p3 600 and 10gb hd,cdr
would like to change the hd out but keep all my current info are they an easy way to do this, can change the rest out..just never changed a hd out before.
thank you all in advance for your help
The hard disk should have come with a utility that will let you copy all of the contents of your current drive to the new one. Check for that one. I am assuming you want to use the new drive as your boot drive, and keep the old one, correct? You will probably need to jumper the new drive as master and the old one as slave, though it depends on the particulars of your system.

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[Brian1154]

thank you for your reply, however i dont have the available space to add a second hard drive..wish i did..i was wanting to replace the 4.3 gb with the new 10 gb

probally have to back everything up then just do a clean install then restore my original stuff...thanks again for the help

i really like this site..found a new place to learn stuff..

[Paleo Pete]

You can still have your cake and eat it too. Install the new drive in the bay where the original one is located. Add the old drive, jumpered as slave, to the ribbon cable, and set it on top of the power supply, or somewhere it will sit safely while you transfer files. Put a piece of cardboard or thin layer of foam rubber under it to eliminate the possibility of shorting. Then after installing the new drive and transferring files, unplug it, rejumper the new drive if necessary, and close it up. You'll have to go into the BIOS a couple of times to, to set and reset the drive parameters.

Rejumpering might be necessary since some drives have only Master/Slave settings, while others have Single Drive, Master w/slave and Slave settings.

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[Brian1154]

thank you..i appreciate the help

[swiecima]

OK, maybe a related question. PC novice seeks guidance. I have a new PC with XP. I will run a video editing application and will write all video data to a second HDD. I just bought a WD400BB Harddrive and put it in the PC. I've got the boot HDD on Primary Master and the new drive on Primary Slave. In IDE secondary I've got a CDRW and DVD ROM. The primary HDD is in 3 partitions (OS/SW, DATA, and RECOVERY). I boot up and can't see the new HDD. Is there some BIOS setting I need to deal with? Thanks

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[Paleo Pete]

swiecima: Please post a new topic rather than tacking yours onto an existing one. Although this is a rather old one, it gets very confusing trying to answer two or more people in one topic.

Yes, you have to set BIOS to see the new hard drive. Should be in Standard CMOS settings, Primary IDE Slave, set it to Auto Detect.

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