I need to install a new larger HD in this laptop. How to I copy the currect smaller HD to the new one. I understand that I will need to create one large partition on the new drive but how do I do that?

You don't need to do that. A new HDD should have software that allows you to image the old drive to the new. Firstly, make sure your MOBO can support the larger drive. How large is the drive? "So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown

mmm - most new drives (at least those in a retail package) come with a utility that will allow you clone the old to new drive; as in copy it over... And the utility is usually on the web-site for the new drive too as a download. What make drive is new one; and how large are the old and the new? I think cloning usually allows one to resize an image to fit a new partition too - as in fit it into one "a little" larger (usually) than the original; but it doesn't have to be the whole of the new drive... Presuming that is correct, I'd partition the new drive to allow both a Primary partition and Extended partition; and copy the old drive into the Primary (presuming the old drive is a single partition drive); balance of new drive would be data etc? If the old drive has both Primary and Extended partitions then the util will copy old to new similarly. Also Acronis drive image is a useful tool to do what you want; but it isn't free... Have a look for the util on your new drive's web-site first? How to partition etc. as drive: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255867 http://www.bootdisk.com/ (and scroll down to near bottom of lists).

What you want to do is very simple and strightforward if your dealing with a desktop computer where both the old hard drive and the new hard drive can easily setup in the same computer at the same time using the multiple IDE connections available in the desktop computer. But, with a laptop it can be a lot more involved unless you have the hardware capability of setting up both of these hard drives in the laptop at the same time. As for just getting the new hard drive partitioned, you need to be able to boot your Tecra from another source. If your Tecra has a floppy drive which it will boot from, then it's no problem at all. Just use the existing Win98 system on the laptop to create a Win98 boot floppy. Then remove the old hard drive and install the new hard drive and boot the laptop from the boot floppy. Then run FDISK.exe and at the opening prompt asking if you want large disk support, answer yes. Then just select to create a new DOS primary partition and follow the prompts. After the partition is created, exit FDISK and then re-boot the computer with the boot floppy. Then, use the FORMAT.exe command to format the new partition. The command is just FORMAT C:, you get a warning about destroying all the data on the C: drive, but since it's a new partition there really isn't any data to destroy. After this new hard drive is partitioned and formatted, you will be able to copy the contents of the old hard drive to the new hard drive, IF you can figure out a way to connect the two hard drives to the same computer at the same time. One way is if you had an adapter which allowed you to setup one of the hard drives in place of the cdrom drive temporily while you transferred the files. Another way is if you get a USB to IDE adapter for laptop drives which would allow you to boot from the current hard drive and then connect the new hard drive up through the USB adapter (after the new hard drive was partitioned and formatted as described earlier). Then you can use this free utility: http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm to "clone" the old hard drive contents to the new hard drive.

The old HD is 2.9GB and the new one is 6GB

Am I the only person that noticed this is a Laptop? I would assume there is only one drive bay available. kcber2000 Post back and state if this is correct or not.

You are correct. This is a laptop. I am trying to find an image online to help me access the HD. Any suggestions