New Hard Drive

[MadDog]

OK, so I plan on buying a larger hard drive, and make it the primary master. What do I need to do ??

My current drive is 80 GB, UDMA 100 (FAT32), and I plan on buying a 160 GB, UDMA 133. I have an ASUS A7V8X MB, with 1 GB of Kingston memory.

I've done this upgrade before with Windows 9X machines, and I need to know the pitfalls with a Windows 2000 system.

Thanks.

[DocPC]

Just Ghost it over......

[MadDog]

Originally posted by DocPC
Just Ghost it over......

Norton Ghost 2003 ?? Reviews I've read on that program weren't very positive...

[NooNoo]

you will find although the bios sees the 160 gig, windows will only see 128... read here (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013)

[DocPC]

Originally posted by MadDog
Norton Ghost 2003 ?? Reviews I've read on that program weren't very positive...

I use it nearly daily with no issues.

[MadDog]

Originally posted by NooNoo
you will find although the bios sees the 160 gig, windows will only see 128... read here (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013)


NooNoo,

That article applied to Windows XP. Does it also apply to Windows 2000 SP4 ??

MD

[NooNoo]

my bad.. not for sp4 - sp2 or below (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098)

[MadDog]

Originally posted by DocPC
I use it nearly daily with no issues.


So, the new drive should be bootable once I ghost the old drive to it ??

[DocPC]

Originally posted by MadDog
So, the new drive should be bootable once I ghost the old drive to it ??

Should be. Always is for me.

[MadDog]

Originally posted by NooNoo
my bad.. not for sp4 - sp2 or below (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098)

Thanks. Thought you were trying to confuse me for a second.

:confused: :confused: :confused:

[MadDog]

Originally posted by DocPC
Should be. Always is for me.


Thanks. I'll post my results.....

:D

[MadDog]

So, do I ghost my 80GB to the 160GB drive, or do I just do a backup ???

I guess the question is: Would ghosting two drives of unequal size work ??

[TripleRLtd]

It will work.
Ghosting from smailer to larger will be no problem.
Doc is right. Use it all the time and always works.
It only won't work ghosting to a smaller drive.

[DocPC]

Originally posted by MadDog
So, do I ghost my 80GB to the 160GB drive, or do I just do a backup ???

I guess the question is: Would ghosting two drives of unequal size work ??

Go local disk to disk. It's better if the original drive is master and the new drive is slave on the Primary IDE. Choose the source, the old (80GB) drive, then destination new (160GB).

Let it go!

TripleRLtd is correct, ghosting to a smaller drive is near impossible.

[+Daemon+]

just what DocPC said use Norton Ghost

best app, use it daily also.. I would not use anything else

just do a Disk to Disk ghost transfer