Re: Kids Gone-Hard drive cleaning time

Do NOT do what the poster below suggests, but something similar is OK.
See below.
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:20:55 -0400, "sdlomi2"
<daniels_sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"pheasant" <kiavan02@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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~Mike Hollywood wrote:
I'd go with your idea of a new drive.
I don't think the programs would work if you copied them
to the new drive, you'd have to reinstall them.
But you have the advantage of taking as long as you want to copy your
data files to your new drive before you format the old one.
Mike

I think so too. Biggest concern is how will XP react when I've replaced
the old "C" with a new one? Will it look to the new and give the old a
new letter, refuse to boot, or look back to the old and reassign the new
drive?
Last build the HD is H due to a memory card reader I'd installed before
initial boot.
Why not just buy new hd, jumper it as master, install it, format, and
install OS. Jumper old hd as slave and install it. Put YOUR proggies on
new one and transfer any data files YOU use. Let the kids use the OLD (now
'slave') hd exclusively, while you use new one exclusively. HTH, s

Do NOT have the original and new disk connected to the system at boot
time, except when making the clone. (Probably a good idea to make
sure the clone boot device will in fact be booted from before
even connecting the USB or IEEE clone target drive, just in case
your clone software CD is sick.)
.. (There are exceptions to this rule, but they are complicated.)
Instead, get an external disk box with a fast interface that doesn't
have to be connected to the system at boot time. I suggest
IEEE-1394, but USB 2.0 is OK)
Make the clone using the external interface, even though it will be
slower than the internal interface. Then move the original disk
to the external box and the new disk to the computer.
.

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