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western digital hard drive upgrade?
Name: Jacob Grenoble Date: November 17, 2003 at 09:10:57 Pacific OS: WIN XP PRO CPU/Ram: 1.4ghz athlon 512 mb
Comment:
I need to upgrade my harddrive to a much larger one and I was looking at the western digital caviar 120 gb. I know my hard drive now is a fat32(40gb) or so windows says, not sure what that means just trying to be descriptive.
I need to know before I buy the hard drive, are there going to be any problems with the install, I don't want or need the old drive I just want to transfer the old to the new. Please if there are any step-by-step guides out there I would really appreciate it??
Name: ndistress Date: November 17, 2003 at 10:13:57 Pacific
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there are instructions that come with the drive, and usually some utilities that allow you to do a straight drive to drive copy
installing one is not that hard, just make sure you have a bay in the system available, a powercable, and an ide cable with an available plug
ie. the utilities that come with the hard drive will walk you through the setup of the drive
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Response Number 2
Name: Jacob Grenoble Date: November 17, 2003 at 11:39:03 Pacific
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Thank you for the reply, as you can tell I am completely new to this stuff.
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Response Number 3
Name: jim Date: November 17, 2003 at 11:43:01 Pacific
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Most hard drive manufacturers make available free programs for copying drives. Check the Western digital web site.
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Response Number 4
Name: jam Date: November 17, 2003 at 12:37:39 Pacific
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You can use 3rd party software to "clone" your old hard drive...such as DriveCopy or Norton Ghost...or as jim suggested, you can go to the Western Digital website & download their free Windows based utility "Data Lifeguard Tools V. 11.0"
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp#windlg
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Response Number 5
Name: OtheHill Date: November 17, 2003 at 20:11:16 Pacific
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Just make sure that you read the ReadMe files before installing. I believe that you should not format the drive prior to using the copy utility.
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