Installing New Drive Advice

[topgazza]

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

 

[topgazza]

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 ?

 

[topgazza]

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