New hard drive

[dlushington]

I need to upgrade the hard drive in my IBM T21 to a larger capacity. The current hard drive is 20gb and I have just purchased one for 80gb. Installation is not a problem, but what is the best way to copy all the data from the old hard drive to the new one? I can copy all the data on to one of my network drives but I'm sure there is a more direct way of doing it.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Dan

Dan Lush

 

[Crowley16]

can you not connect both hdds at the same time, and just copy across?

or use a hdd usb caddy, and do it that way?

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[tf1]

You can get 3½ to 2½ IDE adapters - usually very cheap. The best way is to remove the 20GB drive and using the adapter, attach it to a desktop PC as a second channel drive and ghost it to the desktop's primary drive. Then attach the new drive and ghost it back. That way is faster and you'll have that extra ghost image just in case something goes wrong!

Regards: tf1

 

[paparazi]

The easiest way is just to fit the new drive on it's own at first set as master (jumpers on reverse of drive) install your operating system then simply fit you old drive jumpered as slave on the same channel.
It helps to put all the files etc you want to save in one place, usually in documents, before fitting the new drive, then you can simply copy those files across with explorer onto the new drive.
Once you have copied what you want to the new drive, there is nothing stopping you formatting the 20gig and leaving it connected as storage space.
You might even want to copy the same files back onto a clean drive.
Martin

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[chriseubank]

Use Norton Ghost ... less headaches, more support.

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