Ok heres my dilemma. I bought a computer almost 3 years ago. It had a 120 gig hard drive. I installed a 160gig as storage. Now, I want to take out the 120 gig one and replace it with a 200 gig. Heres the problem, I never recieved any motherboard cd, or anything else. So, If I take out my original, leaving the storage one alone, and put a new one in as primary, will I only need the windows xp cd? Or, do I need drivers, and cds? ( I have a sony rscv 420 for refrence) And another question, When I installed my 160 gig, I had to add drivers or something to my original. So does the storage hard drive need to be formatted before I add drivers?
Also, this is going to sound weird. I have about 60 gigs of things I need to put onto my 200 which will be new primary, but I have to take out the storage one and install the current primary, take all the information off, format it, then put the 160 back in. ( I only have 30 gigs left on my 160.) So yeah, is it safe to do this?
2006-09-21 12:36:41 · 4 answers · asked by Mashu 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Well I have all the drivers for everything but my motherboard.
I have burned all important files and papers to dvds, everything else is not important, but I dont want it deleted if I can help it.
Ok, I heard from another board about windows xp. It can only do hard drives up to 140. Obviously youd have to partition a hard drive over that...if its true. I have no idea if it is. But, I do want to partition the drive. So, how do I do this? Do I just do it when I first start windows?
2006-09-21 12:53:12 · update #1
For the first part of your question, you will need an WinXP installation CD to perform a format/install on your new harddrive. You will also need drivers for all your hardware, such as your graphics card and sound card. If you dont have the driver disks, you can probably download them from the internet by visiting the manufacturers website. Download them to your secondary drive.
For the second part of your question, yes, it is safe to swap secondary drives as long as there are no system dependant files your computer may need on the drive being removed.
2006-09-21 12:44:02 · answer #1 · answered by Goffik 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would recommend getting Ghost from Norton Symantec or some other backup software. Back all important projects and papers to cds or dvds before starting this.
2006-09-21 12:47:27 · answer #2 · answered by Jeff W 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
whats making computer sluggish is that loss of ram and doubtless your CPU, you do no longer state which make and specs are, and you do no longer likely choose plenty area to place in XP on your difficultchronic, to run quickly or sluggish it is not significant what length the difficult drives are.. id advise installation the XP on the 10gbchronic and use the 80gb as storage
2016-12-12 12:36:58 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put it in without the cd it worked with my pc.
2006-09-21 12:43:57 · answer #4 · answered by Bruce O 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋