Getting new drives
Private_Snoball
Dover AFB, DE, USA
My HDD is starting to die, right now I only have 1 80gig on this system. I am getting 2 200GB HDDs. My current setup has the 1 drive partitioned to two sections. If I do a fresh install of windows on my new HDDs and partition it how I want, will I be able to boot off the fresh drives and still connect my old drive so I can read the data on there to copy the stuff over there using norton ghost or somethign similar?
I need to do a reinstall anyway as its been about a year, I just want to make sure I'll still be able to read my old drive even though it has its own boot sector and is partitioned.
I need to do a reinstall anyway as its been about a year, I just want to make sure I'll still be able to read my old drive even though it has its own boot sector and is partitioned.
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Excellent I figured I would just have to make sure I reset my jumpers to slave on my current drive. Should I just format the current windows partition when I reconnect it? Or will that screw things up?
Also, I may be wrong, but I do believe Norton Ghost copies the whole partition (partition size and everything). It's been awhile since I've used Ghost so I don't really remember if you simply copy the files. I'd just copy over the stuff you want from within windows (profiles, etc) and just format the drive.
Thanks for the input.