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Loy,
Actually you will want to image to the new drive, for best results.
I suggest you access this excellent tutorial on using Ghost.
You will be able to avoid all the pitfalls.
HTH,
Hal Seabolt
http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_1.htm<http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_1.htm>
----- Original Message -----
From: Loy Pressley<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 7:33 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Change Hard Drive
Hi all,
Since I got no answers to my previous query, I'll try to phrase this a
different way.
I have a 40 gig hard drive on this system. Windows XP recognizes only
31.7 gig as usable. Why this is, I do not know. 16.2 gig is in use
with 15.5 gig free space. I need more hard drive space so I want to go
to an 80 gig or larger IDE hard drive. I have only one drive bay in
this system (Dell L800r running at 800 MHz, WinXP SR2 operating system,
FAT32 file system). My plan to change out the hard drive is:
- using Norton Ghost, make an image of Drive C:
- physically remove the old hard drive and install the new drive.
- using the Windows XP System Setup Disk that I just downloaded from
the good folks at Free PC Tech Support,
http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml<http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml>, I will format and partition
the new hard drive.
- then, I will restore the image of Drive C: I made earlier with
Norton Ghost, to the new hard drive and I should be ready to go. Right?
Will this work? What kind of pitfalls am I likely to encounter? Any
help and/or guidance would be greatly appreciated. I am certainly no
expert on computers.
Thanks...
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