| Installing Hardrive? - Click HERE for Original Thread |
| crazi-85crx |
I'll be installing a new 250GB internal Hardrive soon, and I wanted to know how hard it would be to make it my Primary HD. How do I install Windows XP if the computer came with it when I bought it? Do I need to find the Windows install disk?(hidden in my basement somewhere...I think). Can I use the Recovery CD to install Windows XP?
Or should I just run this as a secondary hardrive for gaming, video, and image storage?
FWIW, I've got about 8 gigs left on my current HD. :eek:
All input is welcome and appreciated. |
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| TrevorK |
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Originally posted by crazi-85crx
I'll be installing a new 250GB internal Hardrive soon, and I wanted to know how hard it would be to make it my Primary HD. How do I install Windows XP if the computer came with it when I bought it? Do I need to find the Windows install disk?(hidden in my basement somewhere...I think). Can I use the Recovery CD to install Windows XP?
Or should I just run this as a secondary hardrive for gaming, video, and image storage?
FWIW, I've got about 8 gigs left on my current HD. :eek:
All input is welcome and appreciated.
Use Norton Ghost to copy over your existing harddrive to the new 250GB one. Once it's all copied over, it'll run just as it does now. |
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| crazi-85crx |
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Originally posted by TrevorK
Use Norton Ghost to copy over your existing harddrive to the new 250GB one. Once it's all copied over, it'll run just as it does now.
Thanks. How exactly does it work? Would you have a copy I could borrow? or do you know a cheap place to find it? |
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| crazi-85crx |
Instead of copying everything over to the new (Slave) hardrive and seeing if Windows runs on it, is it possible to run a separate operating system? I have Windows XP on the Master HD, so could I install Linux XP on the Slave HD and still use both???
If so... how? :dunno: |
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| TrevorK |
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Originally posted by crazi-85crx
Instead of copying everything over to the new (Slave) hardrive and seeing if Windows runs on it, is it possible to run a separate operating system? I have Windows XP on the Master HD, so could I install Linux XP on the Slave HD and still use both???
If so... how? :dunno:
What you are attempting to do here is create a dual-boot system. That would be the key word to use in your google search for instructions. |
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| TrevorK |
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Originally posted by crazi-85crx
Thanks. How exactly does it work? Would you have a copy I could borrow? or do you know a cheap place to find it?
It does a bit-for-bit copy of everything on your hard drive; it's meant for replicating hard drives. Large corporations/institutions would use it to role out the same standard setup to each new machine.
As with most computer software it can be purchased at Futureshop or downloaded illegally off the web. |
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| crazi-85crx |
I've decided I'll either, run the new HD without an OS, or I'll copy the old OS onto it.
Thanks for the help guys.:thumbup: |
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| scooby_dooby |
| If it's a SATA drive you'll probably have to load up the SATA drivers from floppy when installing windows, just a heads up. |
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| crazi-85crx |
| everything is in and running good. :beer: |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
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Originally posted by TrevorK
It does a bit-for-bit copy of everything on your hard drive; it's meant for replicating hard drives. Large corporations/institutions would use it to role out the same standard setup to each new machine.
As with most computer software it can be purchased at Futureshop or downloaded illegally off the web.
Large corperation? use Ghost? Really?
Shoot the university I work at used an actual hard drive duplicating machine, plug in 1 source, 4 destinations, and done in 1/4 time of ghost.
Norton has a new suite would would work better for corperations, connect a computer to the network, boot off a certian CD/Floppy and it pulls the ghost over the network.
I know a number of smaller companies that use ghost to automate their backups of workstations.
But yeah Ghost will work fine for switching to teh larger drive as a boot drive without having to re-install anything. Personally I would recommend Ghost 2003, for disk-disk copies I find it faster, on a number of machines, faster in comparison to ghost 9 or 10. |
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| TrevorK |
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Originally posted by SilverNeonRacer
Large corperation? use Ghost? Really?
I haven't encountered many (We're talking 1000+ PCs) that use something other than Ghost. I've encountered some that use nothing altogether, but rarely something other than ghost.
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Shoot the university I work at used an actual hard drive duplicating machine, plug in 1 source, 4 destinations, and done in 1/4 time of ghost.
When you're dealing with 1000-2000 lab-based computers, having to remove all the hard drives would be a major PITA.
As well, it only takes ~10-12 minutes to do a Ghost from CD (4gb of data). I would imagine the HD copier would still take 4-5 minutes, then you have to add in the install/removal time and the time it takes to bring the hard drive from the PC to the duplicator. Definetely quicker to Ghost.
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Norton has a new suite would would work better for corperations, connect a computer to the network, boot off a certian CD/Floppy and it pulls the ghost over the network.
And that's exactly what we use for our labs - it rolls out an image within 15-20 minutes for all the PCs. We use CD-based Ghost for our instructor PCs, which still only takes 10-12 minutes. |
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