Mastershakes said:
celticfan11 said:From what i understand you have a computer with hard drive 1 on it and it is running your OS (probably XP), and you have a 2nd hard drive the DELL hard drive. If you want to erase the DELL harddrive and install it onto your computer for data storage, follow the directions in the link below. If i have assumed wrong, then do not do the below steps. If you do not have WIN XP, state which OS you have and we can find you a guide for that OS.
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/howto/install_xp_disk_mgmt.html
edit: You will not have to initalize the drive, you will erase the partiton, create a new one, then format, or just format. (Do a quick format to save you time)
mlakrid said:What OS are you planning on using as your primary?
mlakrid said:Do you have a HDD with that OS already on it?
mlakrid said:How do you expect it to boot? This is almost a trick question, what Im getting at is it is very difficult to move an OS HDD to a new PC without MAJOR driver issues, even if you were to boot it in safe mode and update the drivers...
I have 2 hard drive with exactly the same thing on them. I want to clean everything off of one of them.mlakrid said:So what exactly are you trying to do it sounds to me like you ahve an exisiting HDD with OS and files on it, and you want to use the new one for storage... Please tell me if I have this correct
IF it is... then it is easier to install the old HDD in the NEW machine as a secondary HDD or slave, and have the one that came with it remain as the OS/boot HDD... then transfer any files you want to keep, to the new HDD, format the old one, re-transfer them back, and your done...
mlakrid said:Hope this helps...
Mike A!
celticfan11 said:From what i understand you have a computer with hard drive 1 on it and it is running your OS (probably XP), and you have a 2nd hard drive the DELL hard drive. If you want to erase the DELL harddrive and install it onto your computer for data storage, follow the directions in the link below. If i have assumed wrong, then do not do the below steps. If you do not have WIN XP, state which OS you have and we can find you a guide for that OS.
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/howto/install_xp_disk_mgmt.html
edit: You will not have to initalize the drive, you will erase the partiton, create a new one, then format, or just format. (Do a quick format to save you time)
mlakrid said:LOL, this is basically what I had said to do...
mlakrid said:LOL, this is basically what I had said to do...
Im confused though
How do you have the same image on two hard drives?
mlakrid said:is it on a raid setup?
mlakrid said:You never answered the previous questions...
if you format the HDD in the new comp and use the HDD you had, you are going to run into major issues...
good luck...
if you have 2 hdds in the SAME NEW computer and you format one you probably just destroyed all data on both drives as it was probably a raid...
either way... good luck
you should really post more information if you want the correct analysis of your problem and its solution
celticfan11 said:Well yes, but i gave him a nice webste with a pictured tutorial, in case he is a noob.
David_L6 said:I used Norton Ghost 2003 to copy everything from a 40GB SATA hard drive to a 74GB W.D. Raptor hard drive.
lancer said:Ok either i'm totally missing the point here or everyone else is.
i'm assuming you want to put a new hard drive in as the primary and the dell one as the secondary.
If this is correct, it's very simple. (i do it almost every day with dell machines)
1) Just put both drives jumpers to CS (cable select).
2) Put the new drive (raptor) on the master connector, (the last one on the ribbon)
3) Put the dell drive on the middle connector
4) Make sure the machine is set to boot from CD
5) Boot the dell machine, install new xp o/s onto the raptor drive.
6) Once all is installed you can either a)format the second (dell) drive within windows by simply right clicking on the drive and doing a format, or by going into disk management under admin tools in control panel. Or simply delete the folders you dont want, up to you,
Or if you have already ghosted the raptor drive (which you say you have), follow the above points, ignore 4&5
Whats the big confusion here guys... jeez.
wipe.bat
mlakrid said:QUOTE: "I have 2 hard drive with exactly the same thing on them. I want to clean everything off of one of them."
EXACTLY, but if you look back up to where I first posted, he had never said he ghosted the first drive... he said it was a NEW comp and wanted to put in ANOTHER drive...
That was MY confusion...