I installed a new hard drive on my comp, how do i get my new hard drive to have windows xp and no xp on my old hard drive. I want my new hard drive as my main hard drive and my old hard drive as my second. I want xp on the new hard drive and remove xp from my old hard drive.
I own windows xp professional
2007-05-05 12:12:59 · 7 answers · asked by Richard Boolean 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Your question involves a few steps. First, you will need to reinstall XP on your new hard drive and format your 2nd hard drive. If you want to use the 2nd hard drive you need to make your primary drive the slave drive and based on what type of hard drive you have (brand) you will need to visit their website to determine how to set up the jumpers. I hope this helped.
2007-05-05 12:16:50 · answer #1 · answered by ber69 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It sounds like you want to clone your old hard drive on to your new drive.You can accomplish this by downloading a free program called xxclone.
Your new hard drive needs to be formatted and partitioned.
You set your new hard drive as a slave. Usually that means having to remove the jumper(s) between the 40 pin IDE socket and the 4 pin power cable.
You then run xxclone and it will copy every file over to the new hard drive. You then have to make the hard drive bootable so click on Cool tabs and make the new hard drive bootable.
You then swap you hard drives around, making the new drive the master (put the jumper back in) and the old hard drive the slave (remove the jumpers).
2007-05-05 12:22:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drive manufacturers have a utility on their website to make an exact copy of the old drive to the new drive. The new drive needs to be on the first ide controller when you boot it after the copy. (bios, by default will look at the drive on that controller to boot from first) After that, you can delete the partiton(s) and recreate the the partition and quick format in disk management.
2007-05-05 12:22:44 · answer #3 · answered by F___M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, set the new hard drive jumpers to be Master. Change old drives jumper to Slave. Set CD to first boot device then put in Windows CD and install on New Drive. Once completed and running Windows, copy anything you want to keep on the old drive, then Format the old drive.
2007-05-05 12:17:32 · answer #4 · answered by Nick O 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
install Win XP on the new hard drive, then transfer all of the programs you wish to keep from the old drive to the new one. then format the old drive. This will delete everything on the old drive and now you can start fresh.
2007-05-05 12:18:40 · answer #5 · answered by the webpage master 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Use the clone function of True Image to transfer the OS as well as all the programs you installed on your C: drive.
Then you can use the new drive as your boot drive and wipe the old one clean. All that without having to reinstall anyything.
2007-05-05 12:22:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
open Bios by potential of pressign DEL on startup. locate boot sequance, and alter to CD/DVD rompersistent as first bood gadget, and not easypersistent as 2nd put in the XP cd and save and go out from the bios. press the indicated key besides from the disc. as quickly as loaded, format the not easypersistent, and set up XP.
2016-10-14 21:17:35 · answer #7 · answered by quellette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋