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Originally posted by Pilot:
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*If the cable that is attached to the Primary IDE port of the motherboard has 2 connectors, then attach the new hard drive to the extra connector. I would reccommend designating the new hard drive as Master (MA) and the old drive as Slave (SL). On Western Digital's "Caviar" series of drives, the designating jumpers are between the 40 pin interace connector and the power connector on the end of the drive. What brand/model hard drives are you using? Having the larger hard drive as the boot drive is always a must.
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Once the drives are connected in this fashion, auto detect the drives in the CMOS setup, if the setup does indeed have this option. Otherwise you will have to enter the drive geometry manually. Once this is done, use a program such as EZ-DRIVE or Max Blast to copy the entire partition from the 2gb to the larger one. You may then go back and erase the old 2gb, and boot from the larger one. Make sense? If you don't have and of these utilities, I'd be more than happy to email them to you.
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The drives are the same size. All I know is that they're 0.5Gbs each, I don't know the brand. But they might be getting a new (as in bought from a shop) 4Gb HD at some point. I think I'll install these then swap one of the HDs for the 4Gb one later.
What's the CMOS setup?
*wishes his mum would stop saying he knows loads about computers*
Ahh well, at least her saying I know loads is forcing me to learn more.