Swap secondary drive for primary?

[AJJA17]

Hi All,

I have an 8gig primary drive (C running Windows '98 which is quite old now and making noises (chugging). I also have an 80gig secondary drive (E which is faster (7200rpm). I realise that the faster drive should really be the primary and now that the smaller primary drive is being a pain I want to remove it and use only the larger, faster drive.

There is data on the larger drive which I would prefer not to lose and the only partition apart from the main area is used as a scratch disc (D.

I have Windows 2000 which I would like to install as the O/S on the large drive but do not wish lose data already on it.

Any suggestions as to how I might approach this problem would be greatly appreciated. If further info is required, just ask.

Regards
AJJA17

 

[edfair]

Partition magic to crate another primary partition you can use to clone the stuff over. And an extended + logical that you can use for data exchange after it is running. Then you can start moving stuff around.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[dkdude]

You do not necessary have to partition the bigger HD. Why not just install Win2k, keeping the partition w/all your data on it?!

Just make sure that you do not allow the setup program to erase the HD during install.

Good Luck §;O)


Jakob

 

[AJJA17]

Hello,

Many thanks for your info, it's just one of those things I have not had to do until now. I'll give it a shot tonight.

Regards
AJJA17