-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Installing a second hard drive

Hi Connie,

I replied to your query last night, but I haven't seen my post appear
yet. I will repeat my reply hereunder:

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I found the following method for duplicating an entire drive to
another to work very well, and it is FAST! It was originally written
for Windows 98.

1.      Remove the existing D-drive and install the new drive as D. Set the
jumpers accordingly for a slave.

2.      At the DOS prompt, run FDISK, answer YES to enable large disk
support,
and partition the drive into primary and extended partitions, with two
extended DOS logical drives in the second partition - thereby creating
D, E & F drive letters.(Assuming you actually want to partition the
new drive into 3 sectors, otherwise ignore the references to the extra
partitions and leave it as one big drive partition)

3.      As I already had Win98se installed on the old C-drive, it was much
quicker
to load Windows and then format the new D, E & F drives through
Windows Explorer. Right-click on the Drive letter under ?My Computer?;
select ?Format? and ?Copy System Files? for D, but only ?Format? for E
& F.

4.      Now create a System Boot disk with Fdisk.exe on a stiffy.

5.      From Windows Explorer, set View Options to ?show all files? then
?Copy &
Paste? the entire contents of the C-drive to the New D-drive, except
for the following:  Io.Sys; Command.Com; Recycle Bin; Windows
Directory and the Win386.swp file. Overwrite the new Msdos.Sys file
that is on the D-drive with the older one from the C-drive.

6.      Create a ?Windows? folder on the D-drive, ?Copy & Paste? the entire
contents ( Ctrl-A) of the Windows folder on C-drive, after first
deselecting the Win386.swp file. (In WINDOWS Folder)

7.      When finished, shut down, remove the old C-drive, reconfigure the
jumpers
on the new drive to that of a primary drive and boot up from the
A-drive boot disk which was created earlier.

8.      Reset the BIOS to accept the drive changes.

9.      Run Fdisk from A:, and make the primary partition of the new drive,
now C, active.

10.     Exit Fdisk, remove the Boot stiffy, reboot as per normal.

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HTH,

That Guy In Africa...
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-----Original Message-----
From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of C.E. Cochran
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 3:39 AM
To: PCTechTalk
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Installing a second hard drive



Hi everyone.  I have a computer here with a very hard small drive, so
I want
to put another hard drive in it.  I don't want to lose anything that's
on
the drive that is in it now, I just want to add the additional drive.
I'm
fairly sure that's possible - I have some questions I'm sure you will
find
very simple but I really have no idea.  Do I just install the new
drive as
slave, and how does the computer recognize it?  Do I install Windows
98 on
the new drive as well?  How do you make the computer run programs from
both
drives?  I hope I'm making sense with these questions - I've never had
a
computer with more than one hard drive in it so I'm totally clueless
about
this.  Any advice anyone can give me regarding this will be greatly
appreciated.  I'm comfortable working inside the computer - I've
installed
CD-ROMs, CD-RWs, memory, etc.  I just don't know about hard drives and
how
the programs will run after you put them on more than one drive -
thanks
everyone, Connie C.

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