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I was told by a friend that I could get a program called Ghost for hard drives the last time that i was trying to put another hard drive into my computer for a extra drive I wanted to format the one that I hooked up not the one with everything on it so I made sure that it was reading the right drive and I found out that hard way I formatted the one with everything on it I want to put another hard drive in my computer by slaving it and copy files to it if I don't have to have windows on both of them I want to know how to make it work for me to store like big files on it like mp3 or work files that I save please help and give me any ideas
Thanx
You'd use Ghost to make an exact copy of your HD. Since this isn't what you want to do you don't need it.
Just connect a second HD to your system, making sure the master/slave jumpers are correct. Partition and format it as necessary. Then when you want to save a file, specify saving it to the D: drive.
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You just put the new drive in and set it to be master or slave depending on which channel of the IDE you are using, set the BIOS to auto detect the drives, partion and format it and just drag the files you want to the new drive. You only want to use Ghost if you want to clone your original 'C' drive so it will be your new 'C' drive I.E. you want a bigger drive but you do not want to install everything from scratch, you just clone it.
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You can clone your boot drive with this simple procedure and it costs NOTHING.
To clone your boot drive:
1. Put the new drive in as Master C: drive. Run Fdisk and partition as desired, make partition one active.
2. Format the drive (DO NOT use switch /S - DO NOT COPY SYSTEM FILES TO THE TARGET DRIVE OR THE CLONE WILL
NOT WORK)
3. Return the original boot drive to Master C: and install the new drive as Slave D: or as Master D: if its on the secondary IDE connector.
4. Boot up to Windows, click Start, click Run, now type in: "XCOPY32.EXE /c /h /e /k C:\*.* D:" (without the quotes) (observe spaces,
be sure its exactly as shown above) click OK. A DOS window will appear (do not change to full screen) showing the copy process from
C: to D:, when the clone job is done the DOS window will close (on some windows versions) or just end without comment. When its
done you will know because the action is intense and will end abruptly when finished.Now your new drive is the spittin image of drive C: but will not boot the computer as a slave (or master) in drive D:. If your system fails
you'll have to remove the boot drive and replace it with the clone configured as Master C:. Then it will boot you up just like the original.The XCopy switches used tell DOS to copy Hidden files, all Directories and Sub-directories, System files, read only files and keep long filenames.
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You just put the new drive in and set it to be master or slave depending on which channel of the IDE you are using, set the BIOS to auto detect the drives, partion and format it and just drag the files you want to the new drive. You only want to use Ghost if you want to clone your original 'C' drive so it will be your new 'C' drive I.E. you want a bigger drive but you do not want to install everything from scratch, you just clone it.
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Carlos, you're ALMOST correct, but not 100% (as I found out last week when trying to clone a HD this way.)
First, it doesn't matter whether or not you use the /s switch, because if you copy C:\*.* you're going to copy the system files anyway.
Second (and the most important) is that files that are in use will not be copied. Thus, if you're attempting to clone the HD, there are some necessary Windows files that won't be copied. If you execute the same command from DOS, all of the files will be copied, but with the truncated DOS filenames.
After trying to work around this for an hour or two, I gave up and used Partition Magic to copy the partition to the new HD instead. If you can live with the shortened filenames, use xcopy32 from DOS. If you're just copying directories that are not currently in use, use it from a DOS prompt in Windows and it will preserve the long filenames.
Hope this helps.
Dave
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Okay when I plug in the other hard drive and have the jumpers set to slave it boots up instead of using the drive with windows on it and the drive that I hook up has nothing on it and has an error when starting like invaild system disk or something I will have to plug it in and let you know the exact error message will I still be able to use this drive and also it has like 6 partitions on it I got it from a friend how do I get rid of them after formatting I know that I'm suppose to use fdisk I think but can I delete un needed ones as well as creating just one on the drive
thanx for all your help
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The message with the name brandon is the same person as slaving hard drives and I'm the one asking for help so you didn't think that it was a reply to the question I was replying to all the answers thanx for all the help once again
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Brandon, you need to fdisk first, then format.
From the How-To's on the left:
Hope this helps.
Dave
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You say when you set your new drive up as slave the computer tries to boot from it even though your other drive is set up as master and has windows installed on it?
If so, it's most likely your old drive is master on the secondary IDE port and your new one is slave on the primary. Either that or you have a really weird boot sequence in cmos.
Better fix that first or you might end up partitioning and formatting the wrong drive.
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