Install it into my PC? My PC has room for two drives so I have set the new one as a slave (no jumpers) and the original is a master (one jumper). When I look under device manager it sees the drive is there. However, it says that it is not initialised. How do I do this?
What I would like to do is put the windows files etc onto the new drive (just copy them, across?) so that I can use it as the master and ditch the old one which sometimes fails to operate.

Thanks for your help on this one guys cos I'm a bit out of my depth.

 

If you are using XP, and the drive is showing in the BIOS screens, all you have to do is go into disk management (rightclick My Computer -> manage, choose disk management). Windows will start the "initialise new disk" wizard.


Andy

 

Chaz, there are two ways you can transfer the operating system files to the new disk. You can either reinstall windows from the CD (often the best option as this clears up any other niggles you may have) or, using disk imaging software such as Norton Ghost, boot to floppy, load ghost and copy the image of the old disk to the new disk. Then just plug the new drive in as master and disconnect the old one. NB your new disk will need to have a partition on it at least the size of the data on your old disk.

 

If it is XP and you use disk management to format it, make sure you dont make it a dynamic disk. This seems an easy mistake as a few of my collegues did this and it causes all sorts of problems.

 

Chaz,

I'm only round the corner, so drop me a line if you get stuck

Full set of tools available to rebuild pretty much anything...

 

Stu200 where abouts are you based?

 

It all works!!!!



Thanks guys