Steve,

The method you suggest would work.

I use a variation of it whenever I need to replace a smaller
capacity hard drive with a larger one in an existing system.

First I back up everything on the old hard drive to tape.

Second I use Drive Copy (commercial software) to copy everything
on the old hard drive to the new larger capacity one. Other programs,
such as Ghost, can also do this.

After setting the hard drive jumpers to the correct configuration,
I'm done. Unless something goes wrong during the copying process.
In that case, I reformat the new hard drive. Then copy everything
from the tape cartridge to the new hard drive.

The only time I exclusively use the external tape drive (tape
cartridge) method is when I want to get rid of something
on the old hard drive. Such as Drive Space or Disk Manager
if no longer needed.

Steven Walley
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At 07:23 PM 12/12/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I am contemplating replacing a slave HD with a higher capacity one. Last
>time I upgraded my primary HD, it was a disaster that required a complete
>O/S install.
>I have a 2.1 GB WD primary and a 1.6 GB WD slave on the primary IDE
>controller. A CD is on the secondary controller. I know I can install the
>new HD on the secondary controller as master and copy the contents of the
>slave HD to it, then use the new HD to replace the old slave unit. This is
>very tedious as it requires multiple changes to the BIOS in addition to
>hardware changes.
>What about if I used a parallel port tape storage device to store the
>contents of the slave HD? Then I could remove the old HD and install the
>new one in one hardware changeout. Then restore the contents from the tape.
>So, unless there is a better way to do this, are there any suggestions on
>the external tape drive? I would appreciate any help.
>
>Steve Face      ex-Windows 95 support

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