UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Chit Chat How Do You Upgrade Your HardDrive?

No I don't wanna put one as a slave. I just want to upgrade a harddrive I have on a old computer of mine from a 5gb to a 40gb. How do I go about doing this? Do I just take out the old and put in the new or what steps do I all have to do to transfer all the stuff over?

There is a proggy called "Disk Manager" that is available from IBM, Western Digital etc. that allows you to put the new drive in as a slave, then run a file copy program that copies everything including the system files to the new drive. Then you remove the original drive and make the new one the master and boot right up.

Edit: need to learn how to spell

[ 01-06-2002 04:38 PM: Message edited by: XPerT ]

unless you're on a network?

Ok thanks.

Now another quick question. If I wanted to reformat my computer instead of just upgrading the hd and reformating could I just put the new hd right in there and not have to worry about re-formating? Or is there another procedure i need to take?

I'd say you re-format if you want. Your going to loose all the data on the old hard drive so you have nothing to loose. But I'm not that sure about this stuff.

If you're wanting to start from scratch, then remove your old hard drive and put in the new one as the master. Now, you have two choices on getting the HD ready. One, you can create a boot floppy and boot your computer from that and then fdisk and format the hard drive. Or two, you can boot an OS from the OS CD-ROM (assuming its a bootable one) and install from there.

Aight, thanks all =), hopefully I can get the harddrive tonight and get it all going =), oh yeah and i'll have to get a new modem tonight also cause the one on that comp is shot. Is installing a new modem pretty easy, or no?

its easy, you just pull the old out, plug the new in, install the drivers, and your done

Ok good, I thought it'd be easy like that, just was making sure =D.