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randruff · 01-06-2006, 04:03 PM

Well, it depends on what your intentions with the new hdd are. If you wish to use the new hdd simply for storage, all you have to do is plug it in, set it to slave (if its IDE), boot into windows normally. When windows is up, right click on my computer > manage > disk management. There, you should see your new drive as unallocated space. Right click on the drive and goto format. Once its done, Windows should recognize it as a new hdd.

If you are looking to make this new drive your bootable or only drive, thats another story. You can do two things. 1)burn all of your data you want to keep and just throw it on the new drive once windows is installed and 2)make an image with a program like ghost of your hdd right now and load the image on your new hdd.

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randruff Platinum Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: 30 min south of iraq....oops....Detroit. Age: 27 Posts: 742	Well, it depends on what your intentions with the new hdd are. If you wish to use the new hdd simply for storage, all you have to do is plug it in, set it to slave (if its IDE), boot into windows normally. When windows is up, right click on my computer > manage > disk management. There, you should see your new drive as unallocated space. Right click on the drive and goto format. Once its done, Windows should recognize it as a new hdd. If you are looking to make this new drive your bootable or only drive, thats another story. You can do two things. 1)burn all of your data you want to keep and just throw it on the new drive once windows is installed and 2)make an image with a program like ghost of your hdd right now and load the image on your new hdd. __________________ Asus A8N SLI Deluxe AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice 2GB OCZ Platinum PC3200 - Dual Channel 2x WD 74GB Raptor 10,000RPM - RAID 0 eVGA geForce 7800GTX Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Logitech Z-5500 Digital THX 5.1 1010W 19' Samsung 915N 8ms Raidmax 520W PSU