[COMP] Re: One Last HD ? (I hope)

In a message dated 5/19/00 10:52:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
CRAZYDOVE@xxxxxxx writes:

<< Ok..today is the day..but.. I need to know..when do I reformat my old hd's 
c: 
 partition  (meaning I have to remove win98 from it)..so that my new hd will 
 be the main c: drive/win98.  I have lots of info printed out..but can't seem 
 to find the answer to that one.  Unless it will change after I install the 
 new hd? >>

Personally, I wouldn't do anything w/it until i was sure I had everything off 
of it that I wanted to keep, and had another drive ready to go in it's place. 
 Add the new drive as a slave, copy your files you want to keep to it, then 
pull the cable on the old one, set the new one as master, get the new drive 
set up just like you want it (as though it were going to be your only drive)  
The reason being, if you wipe the current drive before you're sure 
everything's gonna work on the new one, then you're there w/no working pc.  
You've dumped the working drive, and haven't yet set up the new one.  I 
prefer not to let one working setup go, until I have one that I'm sure is 
ready to take it's place, but that's just a blonde thing I think. Anyway, 
after you're sure the new drive is up and running, pull the cable from it, 
attach the cable to the old drive, leave it as master, all by itself (so you 
don't have two drives in there, both set up as primary w/98 on them) , then 
wipe it (it being the original drive) When you're through, put the new drive 
that you've already set up back in as master, make the original drive (now 
empty) slave to the new drive that's already set up and ready to go.  If I'm 
not mistaken, the whole reason for the new drive is because the existing 
drive had some bad blocks or something?  I wouldn't use it as my primary, but 
should be fine as a secondary. 

Good Luck!

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