from bootable removable media. REMOVE the original hard drive. Install the new hard drive as the master. AFTER you've done this and booted off the new hard drive, you may reinstall the old hard drive as slave or whatever. Don't forget the pin configurations...

Changing Hard Drives. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics () I have XP Pro installed on a small drive (15 Gig). It is formatted with NTFS. I would like to transfer the entire install on this drive to a different 60 Gig that is formatted...

number? Will WinXP continue working properly?. Can > I undo the HDD serial change? How can I make sure that all will continue > working? Any other suggestions? Regards If you do succeed in changing the hard drive's Volume ID, there's a good chance...

Changing hard drive name/letter. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics () I just replaced a PC with a new Hard drive, and installed windows XP. The drive works fine but noticed that it somehow became drive E: instead of drive C: There are...

easy access to the hard drive. Newer ones are much much better. Replacing my Toshiba 1415's 30GB drive today was incredibly easy: - remove one screw to expose bottom panel and hard drive. - unplug the drive from the connector - remove the drive and support...

my hard drive letter to E: instead of C:, now everytime I want to download something, or install a program, it tells me that it cannot find the path or that the disk is full. How can I solve this problem or change the letters on the installed drives...

hard drive, 2 256mb PC2100 ram sticks (for a total of 512), and 64mb shared video ram. Would I see better gains in gaming from changing the hard drive to a 5400rpm, or by changing one of the 256mb sticks for a 512mb stick, yielding 768mb ram, and thus giving...

Hard drives are fragile no matter what people say. The fact you moved them from one sytem to another and the drives being that old is already asking for failure. Ask your yourself this question... "Was I careful when I was moving the hard drive to the new system?"...

reason I'm changing hard drives is that the 10 gig is full and I don't want to have to reinstall all the junk that is on that hard drive. I'll do more looking into the Ghost program to see how to get it to work for my needs. Thanks again and any more...

upgrading hard drive on laptop - most painless way to tran... Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops () I have a laptop with a 30Gig hard drive that I have partitioned into 2 equal partitions. I would like to replace the 30gig with a 60 gig drive. What is...