Re: Changing boot hard drive
- From: John Doe <jdoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 19:34:02 GMT
george41407@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
My computer is running Win98SE. My boot hard drive is a 6 gig
drive. I also have a 20 gig slave drive, which used to be a 10 gig.
Changing that slave was simply to plug in a 3rd drive and copy all
the files to it, then moving that drive to the second drive cable.
I have never changed that boot drive because I am not sure how. It
contains my boot stuff (Win98 and Dos). How can I copy all the boot
records to another (larger) drive? I have another 20 gigger that
I'd like to use to replace my 6 gig. I'm not worried about the
other directories on C: Those would just be a copy to the new
drive. It's just the boot records and the OS that puzzles me.
George
Do you have a removable media copy of important files from your hard
drives? If not, buy a USB flash drive and do it now.
Someone who does have copies probably won't hesitate to reinstall the
operating system on a new hard drive because he knows how to restore
backed up files. The typical user will find most of his important
files in the My Documents folder. Copy that folder to a flash drive.
Some programs allow backing up data files, so do that to the flash
drive also. If you are familiar with that process, installing a new
hard drive is easy.
.... copy out important files
.... swap the old hard drive for a new hard drive
.... boot to a floppy/CD and install Windows XP on the new hard drive
.... install programs and restore/copy back the important files
If you can, find a local techie to help you.
Good luck.
.
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