I HAVE A 640 MB HARD DRIVEWHICH IS JUMED WITH JUNK. I GOT A NEW ONE 8.4GB DRIVE AND I WOULD LIKE TO USE THAT AS MY PRIMARY DRIVE AND THE OLD ONE AS A SECONDARY. I HAVE NOT DONE FORMATING BEFORE,AND I WOULD LIKE SOMEONE TO GUIDE ME SO I CAN GET MY FEET WET. PS: I AM USING WINDOWS 95 AT THIS TIME PLEASE HELPPPP!!!!!.

Stacy Contact me at www.maxpages.com/freetech Leave me an e-mail and I will walk you through it. Are the drives connected already or not? If they are not let me know this as well and I will Help you.Also have a printer connected to the machine you are going to recieve the instructions on. John

Don't use all capitol letters, looks like you're shouting. Unplug the current HD. Hook up the new drive in the machine and set it to "Master", or "Single" with the jumper on the back of the HD itself. Start the machine with a boot disc, one that has the command of "fdisk" on it. you can make one with Win95 under the 'add and remove' "make startup disc" in control panel. Boot on the floppy and when it gets to the A:> prompt, type in fdisk and hit enter. When it says "Do you want to allow large disc support", choose yes. Next, you have to make a primary dos partition, then you have to make that partition active. The choices are already set for you if you just want one partition, and should be self explaining on-screen. Reboot, again with the floppy, and at the A prompt, type format C: and hit enter. You have to format it after you fdisk it so it is recognized as a HD. That makes one large HD called C: You can format the old drive which will erase all info on it, then set it's jumper to "Slave". Hook the new drive's jumper to "Master" or "Master with Slave" If your BIOS is set to auto-detect, the drive letters will automatically be assigned for the drives. I'd take the old drive out and store it in a drawer for a backup. The new one has more than enough room for anything you'd put in. You can partition the new HD into more than one drive letter, which is done through the fdisk command. My HD is 6.5g and I have it as C: D: E: about 2.1g on each letter. Read the directions on fdisk and print them out so you can read as you work. Good luck

Stacy Bruce is correct execpt when you format your master drive you better install the forward slash s in the command line or your master drive will not be set as the system disk and will not contain the command com. IE: format.com /s c: then hit enter. John

thank you gentlemen for your info. john i could not get your page www.maxpages.com/freetech it says page does not exist. but for your info i do have aprinter, and drive is not connected again thanks stacy

Bruce and John are Correct. But if you are simple minded like me. There's an easier way. Most Western Digital hard drives come with a installer. If yours didn't it's called EZ hard drive Master and EZ hard drive Slave. I agree put the smaller one away you will have plenty of room on the bigger one. Remmber to set your jumper to master or slave. Format c: insert your EZ disk and follow inst.It will even partition your hard drive if your wish. One thing you must start from scatch. I mean you install all of your Dos and Rom driver to set up your c: again. The EZ installers will asign the drives. Your Rom driver will asign it a letter.

i have a computer that i am puting together and i have a used 1 g western digital drive however i do not have the ez disk so what should i do? please help....