madboy33 Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 Ok guys just a new maxtor 80gb HDD ATA (8mb cache)what next?It comes with software to load the drive?How do i install it?I am going to put xp on the new drive and have my old drive as the back upI know i am sounding a bit odd, but never had a disc to load a new drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvw Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 I used Acronis True Image 7, which includes Disc clone, when I got a new hard drive for Ash's machine. It cost £35 to download. It copied the entire contents of the old hard drive onto the new one, partitions and all.Installed blank new hard drive as slave, no need to do anything else, run Acronis Disc Clone.......45 minutes all done. Remove drives......set new one as Master and keep your old one for a week or so just in case anything goes wrong.......you can just put it back in if it does :)Disc Clone does everything for you....very easy to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 Take a look at this link.http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/build.asp?sect=drives&page=2http://www.basichardware.com/HowTo_Install_Hard_Drive.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted July 20, 2004 Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 I believe you have Drive Image, madboy ?instructions basically the same as bvw's above Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted July 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2004 thanks folkswill use drive imagethought it was a little more complex than thatobviously notthanks once again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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