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From: "Rosanne Cleveland-King" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 4:09 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Two hard drives


> I currently have two hard drives on my system, and want to put a new fast
> one in, in place of my C drive.
> Can I leave the operating system on what will become one of the "extra"
hard
> drives, until I reformat it?

The short and easy way is: use xcopy (If you are using win98). you can
switch the operating system
to the new harddisk, and leave the old drive free to format.
you'll need to:
1) Partition and format the new harddisk
2) open a DOS window (important, this can be only done in DOS window, not in
DOS!!), run command
xcopy c:\*.* new_drive_letter:\ /r/i/c/h/k/e/y
eg if your new drive is E, the command will be
xcopy c:\*.* e:\ /r/i/c/h/k/e/y
3) after copy completed, switch the new drive to primary master (C:) and now
you have everything transfered to the new drive and you are free to do what
even you want on old drive.

Jun Qian

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