Installing New Drive Advice

topgazza

topgazza

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Not sure if this counts as a software issue or not. But most of you guys here would have done this sort of thing many times so here goes.

I have installed Vista Ultimate on my C drive but want to return to XP to draw a comparison...heres the hard drive bit.......I have just bought a Seagate 400GB 7200.10 SATA drive for my new c drive and have my old C drive image, using Ghost 9, on an external drive backup device.

I intend to remove my current C drive and store it and replace it with the new drive

1. I'm not clear on what next...do I format and install XP and Ghost on the new drive and do a complete restore and will this overwrite Xp and give me my "old" c drive back ?

2. Do I install the Seagate and use a Ghost recovery disk to restore it ? Although I assume I will need to format the new drive with something, XP ?

3. Or do I install the new drive as D and do 1. Remove C drive, change jumpers on Seagate to master ?

Any advice appreciated
 
Since SATA has one drive per cable, there are no master / slave drives and no jumpers for this. You could have xp on the new drive and keep vista on the old drive. Think you have to tell it what drive you want to boot from in the bios though.
 
Ah, of course. I should have mentioned that I have a D Drive (IDE) that I use for games/files etc which I would want to keep as that.

What I will be left with is a SATA C Drive so thats OK and an IDE D drive which would be non bootable, can I do that ? So I presume I would set the jumper on that to Slave ?

I 'm feeling that a fresh install of XP and ghost to my new Seagate and the do a restore from my external backup device is the best route...but again..open to advice ? Still leaves the issue of what to set the D Drive to ?
 
OK, so I've ordered a Seagate 400gb 7200.10 16mb SATA and a Hitachi 400gb 16mb SATA.

I'll format them one at a time using the disk manager in my current Vista set up.

Install them after removing my IDE drives and do a fresh load of XP and Ghost (I assume I will be asked which drive I want as my "C" Drive and which one as my "D"?) Does that make sense as I've never done a SATA install

Then I will restore my previous backups for the old C & D drives to the new drives
 
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