I have 80GB primary hard drive. and recently I purchased a 300gb hard drive. The 300 gb hard drive acts as secondary and 80 Gb acts as primary. I recorded number of videos and music on 300 gb hard drive. I want to make 300 gb to act as primary hard drive and 80gb as secondary. Will merely changing the jumper and cable will do the need or I have to go beyond that. How willl the the program files and window files go to sendory disk Because recently I tried to upload Microsoft Flight simulator X and it didn't upload as it needs minimum 15gb of space on PRIMARy hard drive, which I didn't have. So I transfered number of files to Secondary hard drive (i.e. 300gb)and uploaded the game. But in order to avoid future problems I want to make 300gb as primary hard drive and 80gb one as secondary hard drive. How can I do it. A step by step instruction shall be highly appreciated And any link to related website shall also be highly appreciated.. my computer knowledge is at Preliminary level.
2007-01-01 10:07:33 · 3 answers · asked by anil 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
You can't do this without reinstalling the Operating System on the 300GB drive. Simply switching the jumpers on the hard drive will result in your computer not starting up.
Another method would be to use Symantec Ghost and image your 80GB drive to your 300GB drive. You'd have to make sure you specified 300GB for the partition size.
If you do this don't forget to backup your files on the 300GB drive because disk imaging wipes the destination drive completely.
2007-01-01 10:11:31 · answer #1 · answered by Shawn H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ditto to the above and clean up the 80 GB drive.
Moving "my documents" over to the 300gb drive would probably do it, and, then you would mainly just have to backup the 300gb drive.
You ARE currently backing it up - right?
(I knew you weren't - I just like to ask that...)
I've had 3 (of 3) new 200gb Maxtors fail this year.
I knew it was a mistake, but for $40 each (from Staples)...
They usually at least last until the one year warranty's up - but then again - every year they seem to get worse.
2007-01-01 18:36:28 · answer #2 · answered by Jon W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, agree with Shawn. Here is a link for the Symantec solution, if you wish.
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/features.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost10
Except, what operating system do you have?
If it's XP Pro, you can mount your new hard drive to the old one, and the 300 GB drive will act like a folder within your 80 GB drive.
2007-01-01 18:26:43 · answer #3 · answered by powhound 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋