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keith everitt
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Sat Jan 08, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:
Hard Drives - changing |
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Can anyone help, I want to change my current Hard drive from a Maxtor 60G to
a Maxtor 120G
I have changed the jumpers as necessary on both drives, BIOS recognizes the
new drive in the Primary Slave postion and even the model type.
When Windows XP loads a drive letter is not shown and I can not proceed with
the format of the new drive before I copy all the files over.
I can look in the device manager and see the new drive and all it details
but can do nothing with it. Eventually I will run everything from the new
drive if I can get to work
what am I doing wrong can anybody help please
Keith E. |
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River_Rat
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Sat Jan 08, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject:
Re: Hard Drives - changing |
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Right click My Computer on your desktop and go to Manage then click on Disk
Management and see if it shows in there then right click it and format and
set drive letter.
Most drive manufacturers offer downloadable tools on their websites to
format drives also.
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Good Day
River Rat
"keith everitt" <keith.everitt@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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Can anyone help, I want to change my current Hard drive from a Maxtor 60G to
a Maxtor 120G
I have changed the jumpers as necessary on both drives, BIOS recognizes the
new drive in the Primary Slave postion and even the model type.
When Windows XP loads a drive letter is not shown and I can not proceed with
the format of the new drive before I copy all the files over.
I can look in the device manager and see the new drive and all it details
but can do nothing with it. Eventually I will run everything from the new
drive if I can get to work
what am I doing wrong can anybody help please
Keith E. |
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LVTravel
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Sat Jan 08, 2005 11:07 pm Post subject:
Re: Hard Drives - changing |
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Keith, If I am reading your post correctly, you want to copy everything from
the 60 GB drive and create a bootable 120 GB new drive. If this is the
case, you can't use Windows to do it. You need a drive cloning program
similar to Ghost by Symantec.
If you have physical room in your system case, why don't you just use the
suggestions from River_Rat and partition and format the drive and use is as
strictly a data drive? That way, if the system drive ever fails and you
needed to reformat the system drive, you would not lose the data.
"keith everitt" <keith.everitt@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:u$iC2nX9EHA.3416@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
| Quote: | Can anyone help, I want to change my current Hard drive from a Maxtor 60G
to
a Maxtor 120G
I have changed the jumpers as necessary on both drives, BIOS recognizes
the
new drive in the Primary Slave postion and even the model type.
When Windows XP loads a drive letter is not shown and I can not proceed
with
the format of the new drive before I copy all the files over.
I can look in the device manager and see the new drive and all it details
but can do nothing with it. Eventually I will run everything from the new
drive if I can get to work
what am I doing wrong can anybody help please
Keith E.
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Gene K
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Sun Jan 09, 2005 7:21 am Post subject:
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Keith,
If what you want to make the new drive your Main (Boot) Drive, go to
Maxtor's Site and download the utility MaxBlast 3 here:
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.3c67e325e0a6b1f6294198b091346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads/ATA%20Hard%20Drives&downloadID=57
You can use this also if you just want to install the New Drive as a slave.
You will need no other program (such as Norton's Ghost) to copy file from
the old to the new drive since this program is designed to do exactly that.
Here is the link to some instructions on how to do what you want to do:
http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1328
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Gene K
"LVTravel" <none@nothere.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Keith, If I am reading your post correctly, you want to copy everything
from
the 60 GB drive and create a bootable 120 GB new drive. If this is the
case, you can't use Windows to do it. You need a drive cloning program
similar to Ghost by Symantec.
If you have physical room in your system case, why don't you just use the
suggestions from River_Rat and partition and format the drive and use is
as
strictly a data drive? That way, if the system drive ever fails and you
needed to reformat the system drive, you would not lose the data.
"keith everitt" <keith.everitt@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:u$iC2nX9EHA.3416@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
Can anyone help, I want to change my current Hard drive from a Maxtor 60G
to
a Maxtor 120G
I have changed the jumpers as necessary on both drives, BIOS recognizes
the
new drive in the Primary Slave postion and even the model type.
When Windows XP loads a drive letter is not shown and I can not proceed
with
the format of the new drive before I copy all the files over.
I can look in the device manager and see the new drive and all it details
but can do nothing with it. Eventually I will run everything from the new
drive if I can get to work
what am I doing wrong can anybody help please
Keith E.
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