[b smith]

Hi there, I want to replace my existing sata primary drive. I have two sata drives filling the IChr 5.

I have ghost14 and plan to do a drive copy.

Not sure where to place the new drive.. to start the format process etc.

Do I remove the second sata, place the new drive in, and copy, and then put the second sata back in place?

Do I need to update my bios before trying to install the new drive? I have most likely a 4 year old bios in place. Or just see if it recognizes the new drive.. and if not update the bios.

Installing a wdcaviar black 500gb

Thanks for any tips.. or if you can point me to a suitable guide.

Bryan.

 

[Tyree]

Remove all drives that do not contain the OS (including any external drives, install the new drive, format the new drive, do the copy.

 

[b smith]

OK thanks...

So once I have the new drive in and formatted, I guess I have the choice to do a new windows install, or to copy the backup from ghost14 on my external drive to the new drive.

I guess I am not understanding the details of the difference between a new windows install and or installing the backup from my external drive using ghost14.

If I do a new install, do I follow all the same procedures as when I first built the machine, xp, then intel chipset install software, then etc... ie do I need to reinstall fresh all the drivers, or will they be loaded when I copy the backup from ghost14? I don't really want to find and install all the programs fresh.

Thank you.. as you can probably imagine.. spending most of the day trying to find out information on this.

Bryan.

 

[JimE]

Copying the backup will simply put things back to how they were when you created the backup.

A fresh install means you will have to reinstall everything manually.