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**blackduck30** · 02-26-2007, 12:52 AM

Ok first of all make sure you buy a drive that is compatable with your system be it a SATA drive or a IDE drive

How i would go about it would be to disconnect your second drive and install the new drive, enable it and formatt it in either disk managment or a third party management tool such as partition magic 8 or a free program like Parition logic ( LOOK HERE )

Once you have the drive showing up in "my computer" I would then use a clonning program such as XXCLONE to copy the contents of your old drive over to the new one, make sure you have a read of this great tutorial that will help you ensure the clone drive is bootable LOOK HERE

once you have done that i would then disconnect the old drive and then reconnect the drive you want to keep out of the 2 old ones, be it the first one you disconnect or not, boot into the bios and then make sure the new drive is second in the boot order after your CD/DVD rom, save and exit then your set

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blackduck30 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Wollongong/Australia Posts: 4,230 OS: XP pro SP3/Vista Ultimate My System	Ok first of all make sure you buy a drive that is compatable with your system be it a SATA drive or a IDE drive How i would go about it would be to disconnect your second drive and install the new drive, enable it and formatt it in either disk managment or a third party management tool such as partition magic 8 or a free program like Parition logic ( LOOK HERE ) Once you have the drive showing up in "my computer" I would then use a clonning program such as XXCLONE to copy the contents of your old drive over to the new one, make sure you have a read of this great tutorial that will help you ensure the clone drive is bootable LOOK HERE once you have done that i would then disconnect the old drive and then reconnect the drive you want to keep out of the 2 old ones, be it the first one you disconnect or not, boot into the bios and then make sure the new drive is second in the boot order after your CD/DVD rom, save and exit then your set __________________ Blackduck30 Time is like money and milk, It's always running out Any Donations Help Keep TSF Free For All Last edited by blackduck30; 02-26-2007 at 12:54 AM.