For the computer savvy freakaleaks---?

Question

Could I install a second hard drive as a slave, copy all of my "C" drive to it, then reconfigure it as master and remove my original hard drive? Will it boot?

Like the question said "copy ALL of "C" drive to it." That includes the operating system. Drag and drop "c" drive into "d" drive.

Maybe it would be easier to just install the new hard drive as master and my old one as slave and boot with the "system restore" disc that came with the PC?

Answer 1

Yes, you can do this. It will require you to change the pins on the back of both hard drives, thus designating which is slave and which is master. It may also require some modifications to the bios, unless your bios is set to autodetect the hardrive parameters on each start up.

Just make sure that you partition your new drive correctly before moving all the contents of the old drive to it.

Answer 2

You'd have to clone the first drive if you wanted it to be bootable. There are programs available that will do this - the easiest I can think of is Ghost from Symantec. The easier route is to install the OS on the second drive, install you applications, then copy any data files to it. It takes longer but will work.

Answer 3

Hey its a really good one u can do that but u have to pre install all the operating system and check the file formatt wat u used in the second hard drive then just make a dump of all that in the first hard disk then just paste that in the second one and use that as a master

Answer 4

the only way it will boot is if the second hard drive has an operating system on it. if it does, then yes you can do that.

Answer 5

Yes it will work.