-----Original Message-----
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:10:58 -0500
From: Loy Pressley <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Change Hard Drive
Hi all,
Thanks tor all for the help.
I have swapped out the old 40 gig drive for a new Western Digital 160
gig hard drive,
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=33, and all is well.
Before doing the swapping, I installed, the Intel application
accelerator which you can get at
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Product_Filter.aspx?Prod
uctID=663,
updated the bios to the latest version, availabe here
*http://tinyurl.com/767bf,* and I already had WinXP SR2 running on the
system. As a result I had no problems with the 137 gb limit.
I then made a Ghost image of the old drive. I turned everything off,
removed the old drive and installed the new drive. I turned on the
computer and used Western Digital's software, available here,
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n, to format and
partition the new drive. Then, I booted to the Ghost image I had made
and installed it (16 CDs). All went well after the restore was complete
except I got an indication that WinXP could not find my Umax 3400
scanner. I reinstalled my scanner software and removed and reinserted
the USB plug for it and it came up just fine and is now working perfectly.
Only one problem: I am now getting an error message which comes just
as WinXP comes on, that says something about "75 Hz is out of range"
or something like that...I can't really tell because it goes by so
fast. I have not noticed anything amiss, however. Does anyone have any
ideas what that might be? I would appreciate any help.
BTW, I got a new ADS Technologies USB 2.0 drive enclosure, installed the
40 gig drive I removed from the computer into it, and pluged it into a
spare USB 2.0 port. It is working perfectly at this time.
Thanks to all for all the help. If anyone has any ideas on the error
message referenced above, I would appreciate any help.
Thanks...
Loy
Harold Seabolt wrote:
>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/fil
es010.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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