Hard Disk Swapping

[Pixie Pete]

Hello!

I recently downloaded Sandra (a computer analysis program, if ya didn't know) having suspected that my computer was under performing for a long time. Anyway, the processor and memory benchmarks were fine, but the real shocker came when I found that my UDMA33 HD was performing only marginally better that an EIDE HD!!!

That annoyed be :angry:

But, I suddenly see a solution. I am planning on building a budget system after my GCSEs, and am getting a 20gb HD for it...

I will swap them over thinks me. But this opens up a completely new kettle o' fish, cos although I apreciate that I will need to format both drives, I NEED some of the stuff on my current HD, and it is too big to fit on a disk! I am not rich enough to invest in a zip drive

So I suppose what I'm asking is:

Is it possible to keep a couple of files, but reformat the rest?

There - now why didn't I just say that in the first place http://forums.gameplay.com/ubb/laughing.gif

Cheers

Alan

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Oooooooh...Peter is a Pixie! He wears a Pixie's hat...

[ybw]

right m8 u got a couple of options i think

1) create a seperate partition on the present HDD, then put all ur needed stuff in there, then format the other partition, copy the stuff over, then make them one again

2) get something like norton ghost, and just ghost the drives, i.e. copy everything over from one to the other, making the new one, just like ur old one, but faster :)
This way u keep the lot :)

3) when u get the new one, format it etc..
then install windows on it and everything else u want
then put the old one in along side it<rem and make it the slave, or out it on a dif channel!>, and then copy over the necessary stuff.

emm, cant think of ne more atm
hope those help

i would go for option 2, as u keep the lot, which is nice

bye

[Pixie Pete]

Well, options 1 and 2 are certainly plausable, as I could then send the things over via direct cable connection...

Option 3, I don't like cos, I wanna put the 2 hDs in two seperate machines, and it's just too damn fiddely!

Anyway, where can I get this Norton Ghost program from, it sounds promising...

Alan

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[Calzor Suzay]

Slap me if I go for the obvious here but...

1) Buy your **** hot dooda hard drive and plug it into the existing pc as the master hd whilst taking out* on your existing hd.

2) Build the PC as new and how you want it.

3) Plug your old hd back into the existing pc as a slave and copy all the data you want back onto your freshly built pc.

4) Make sure everythings hunky dory then unplug your old hd, make it a master, slap it in the newly bought pc, fdisk, format and bobs ya uncle http://forums.gameplay.com/ubb/teeth.gif

*I'm asuming you have a cd so taking the slave hd out whilst you buid it will make the cd D: and life easier later on.

Also Norton Ghost costs crap loads as we use it at work, it does sector by sector copying of hard drives, i.e. exact copies disk to disk, trouble is you have to buy it and you just cant beat a freshly built pc sometimes :)

Choice is yours.

[ybw]

well i sorta suggested that up there somewhere'ish
thats the way i would do it, just that with the registry settings and everything for proggy, u dunno if u have copied the lot

and as for ghost, ;)