ADDING A HARD DRIVE

Easiest thing to do would be to use a disk cloning program. I have always had great success with Partition Magic, use it to copy the partition on the original drive to the new one.
Hope this helps.

To use the drive as your main drive, have it installed on your Primary IDE and set it as a Master drive. Boot-up from start-up disk and do the usual staff such as partition and formatting, etc. OS will recognised that harddisk now as your " C " drive. E-mail me for further help if needed.

When you buy new hard drives, they usually come with a disk. This disk usually is bootable and lets you copy your existing drive to the new drive. It also will probably have a bios program on it. Your bios may not beable to read the new drive as a 30GB drive, so the new bios must be used. You existing bios will still work for everything it did before but not on the configuring of the new drive. This program will allow you use all of the drive.

Your new drive must be the master on the primary IDE controller (where the existing HD is connected now). Look in the directions on how to set the drive as a master. If you plan on using the old drive as well after the transition, it should be set as the slave (directions on top of the drive, most likely) on the primary controller. And then boot from the floppy that came with the new drive. There will most likely be a program to transfer everything from the old drive to the new drive, making it bootable and everything. if this is not there I recommend using either PartionMagic or Ghost.

If you are only going to use the new drive here is a quick and easy way to wire the hard drives. Leaving them both as masters, connect the new drive on the primary (where old drive is now) and connect the old drive on the secondary (where you CD drive is) and when done, reconnect the CD.

I hope that this helps.

Jason

You will need a bootable floppy disk.
Start-settings-control panel- add/remove software- startup disk.

You may have to copy fisk.exe and/or format.com from c:\windows\command

To install the new drive as your C: Drive it will need to be jumpered as Master and Cabled to the Primary IDE Controller.

You may have to configure your bios to detect the hard drive if the bios is not set to auto

If your bios and/or operating system won't recognize all of the 30 Gb you have two choices.
1.use the bios translation utility that most drives come with (not recommended)
2. install bios update either chip or card.

Once your bios sees the whole drive-
fdisk and create one large partition or mutliple smaller partitions.

format the partitions.

boot with cdrom support and reinstall your operating system and software.

connect your old drive to the secondary controller. create an olddrive directory off of your new c:\ and xcopy your old drive there to have access to all your old data. You may then remove the old drive or leave the drive installed and use the storage. I recommend putting the old drive on the secondary controller to avoid conflicts with the new drive.

e-mail me if you have any more questions.
Good luck

I recommend a new load of your operating system because it is cleaner and you don't carry all of your old baggage from your old hard drive.

First get a program from the Seagate site called disk wizard and it has a program called disk Master. This program allows you to use the full capacity of the new hard drive without splitting it.If you try to fdisk it with the fdisk command it will only recognise 7.5gb and you will lose the rest of your capacity. With windows 2000 you can use the whole drive but with win98 scandisk and defrag will not work properly.Disk master will also format your drive and the only other thing you will have todo is make sure that your BIOS will recognise larger drives than 540MB. Check your motherboard site for an updated Bios. Set disk as Master and your old drive as Slave. To transfer your programs from your old drive get Nortons ghost professional andback up to a CDRW disk. When your new disk has the operating system installed download from the CDRW. Realistically a drive this big should be split as it will take hours to defrag and if it crashes you lose everything

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