Newbie fits second hd - disaster pending?

Mackerino

Soon to be installing a second, larger and faster hard disc in an old machine. Hopefully to copy across the old drive to the new and, make the new the master and remove the old. (phew!)

This is an out-line of what I thinks involved - verification or otherwise appreciated.

1.fit the new drive
2. format it with an xp commad
3. Run norton ghost to image old drive to new
4.remove old drive jumper new to master

Job Done?

airoh69

it depends of the programs you have . Some programs that have strong copy protection write on a specific sector on the hard disk. You cannot find where it is located so when you do an image most probably it wont copy that specific sector and the program or game won`t work. Why don`t you just format it and do a fresh install

kryyst

Mackerino wrote:

Soon to be installing a second, larger and faster hard disc in an old machine. Hopefully to copy across the old drive to the new and, make the new the master and remove the old. (phew!)

This is an out-line of what I thinks involved - verification or otherwise appreciated.

1.fit the new drive
2. format it with an xp commad
3. Run norton ghost to image old drive to new
4.remove old drive jumper new to master

Job Done?

If you are using ghost you don't have to format the drive ghost will take care of all of that for you. If your drive is bigger then 137gb you'll have problems. First some older mobo's are limited to 137gb. The other issue is that for windows to recognize a drive bigger then 120gb it's got to be patched. So you first have to boot up with your current set up and the new drive as master. Then apply the patch to windows and the drive so it recog's it as larger then 120gb. Once that's done you can ghost it over and there shouldn't be a problem.

Now your other choice is leave your current drive as your boot drive and just have windows installed on it. Then use the 2nd drive to put all your games/music/movies/whatever on it.


Those are the correct steps. Don't worry about the copy protection airoh69 is talking about I've never in my years come across it or actually every heard of it on modern drives. It would be impractical and unlikely given the way harddrives span and write data. Not to mention it would make defragging a pain in the ass.

Granted I'm not saying it doesn't exist it's entirely possible, just that you don't have to worry about it. I've used ghost to copy drives and never had a problem.

airoh69

Actually i heard this copy prodection stuff 2 weeks ago in my operating systems course (Yes i am a student in a university). And this technig is being used on some of the newest software. And actually defragmenting is not a pain in the ass because those data that are in specific block of a specific sector cannot be read or moved so defragmenter just skips it.But you shouldn`t worry about it as it can be usually found in encyclopedias......
Something else. How old is your system, how big is the hd and what chipset is your mobo???

Mackerino

Thanks chaps. The HD I will be installing will only be 40 gb. There's no real gee-whizz software on there, but I don't have most of the original discs, which is why a ghost copy appeals rather than a fresh install.

Considering the system is rather old c.1997 and has limited memory 188mb I suppose Norton Ghost 2003 would be the corrrect software to acheive my ends.(Rather than Norton Ghost 9.0)

The system is a:

http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/miami.htm

(GVC FR520 'Miami' Motherboard)
CPU Socket 7
SIS 5595 PCI/ISA bridge
Audio : ESS Solo-1.
BIOS : AMI BIOS.
Cache : 512KB write back direct mapped pipeline burstcache.
Chipset : SIS 530 & 5595 chipset.
CPU Support : Socket 7 processors: Intel Pentium P55C, Cyrix MII, AMD K6-2.
Expansion Slots : 2 PCI slots and 1 shared ISA/PCI slot.
Form Factor : MicroATX
RAM : 2 DIMM sockets supporting single- or double-sided SDRAM up to a maximum of 512 MB.
Video : Integrated in chipset.

Upgrade Options
CPU : CPU upgradable up to 450 MHz.
RAM upgradable up to 512 MB using 66 or 100 MHz SDRAM DIMMs.
The Miami motherboard only accepts 168-pin DIMM modules. Only gold-plated DIMMs may be used, as the sockets on the motherboard are also gold-plated, and oxidation must be prevented.

kryyst

that's the ghost you want. Just get it on a floppy boot up with the floppy and you'll be good to go

izzugotom

I have used GOST 2003 a lot between 2x 40G drives, never had a problem, but is it easy to chose size of new partitions handled by Gost, going from 40Gb to 120Gb.
Say I want OS on 1st 40GH, and 2nd partition [was 20GB] copied over to new partition of 80GB ?

kryyst

yes ghost will do that no problem for you it'll auto size a partition to whatever size you want.