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Ah, Its been a while since I had to mess with my computer, and I have forgotten how to do this part. I have a home built computer and started to hear the death click in my hard drive. No biggie, go buy a new one (500 gig should last a long while) but its a SATA hook up and my old one is IDE. Computer recognizes the new 500 gig in every place, except windows explorer.
What am I missing?
I need to clone my old drive before it crashes (it stopped the death click after I installed the new drive, but who knows for how long and my wife will kill me if I loose her pictures.
Ooops...forgot to mention I am currently running windows XP
What am I missing?
I need to clone my old drive before it crashes (it stopped the death click after I installed the new drive, but who knows for how long and my wife will kill me if I loose her pictures.
Ooops...forgot to mention I am currently running windows XP
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Did you partition and format the new drive in Windows? I don't have Windows XP in front of me, but if I remember correctly, go into the Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and find Computer Management. In there should be Disk Management.
With that tool, you should find your new drive. You can create a partition, format it and assign it a drive letter.
With that tool, you should find your new drive. You can create a partition, format it and assign it a drive letter.
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Ah, Its been a while since I had to mess with my computer, and I have forgotten how to do this part. I have a home built computer and started to hear the death click in my hard drive. No biggie, go buy a new one (500 gig should last a long while) but its a SATA hook up and my old one is IDE. Computer recognizes the new 500 gig in every place, except windows explorer.
What am I missing?
I need to clone my old drive before it crashes (it stopped the death click after I installed the new drive, but who knows for how long and my wife will kill me if I loose her pictures.
Ooops...forgot to mention I am currently running windows XP
What am I missing?
I need to clone my old drive before it crashes (it stopped the death click after I installed the new drive, but who knows for how long and my wife will kill me if I loose her pictures.
Ooops...forgot to mention I am currently running windows XP
What drive did you buy?
Is it a Seagate or Western Digital??
Both have free software that you can download from there site to assist in cloning the old drive to the new one.. As well as partition and format the drive..
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Did you partition and format the new drive in Windows? I don't have Windows XP in front of me, but if I remember correctly, go into the Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and find Computer Management. In there should be Disk Management.
With that tool, you should find your new drive. You can create a partition, format it and assign it a drive letter.
With that tool, you should find your new drive. You can create a partition, format it and assign it a drive letter.
I have a Western Digital (never knew about the "green" hard drives)
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I went to a WD drive and used their cloning software-- did everything for me.
It can't be installed unless you have a WD product on your machine. I would imagine that it could find your drive waiting to be cloned. I had a WD USB drive so I used that to install it and then added the new drive.
I just put the 2nd drive on the splitter cable and ran their stuff. Since you went to sata, I imagine that you have an ide to sata adapter.
There may have been other stuff, but I just followed directions.
Good luck,
hj
It can't be installed unless you have a WD product on your machine. I would imagine that it could find your drive waiting to be cloned. I had a WD USB drive so I used that to install it and then added the new drive.
I just put the 2nd drive on the splitter cable and ran their stuff. Since you went to sata, I imagine that you have an ide to sata adapter.
There may have been other stuff, but I just followed directions.
Good luck,
hj
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I went to a WD drive and used their cloning software-- did everything for me.
It can't be installed unless you have a WD product on your machine. I would imagine that it could find your drive waiting to be cloned. I had a WD USB drive so I used that to install it and then added the new drive.
I just put the 2nd drive on the splitter cable and ran their stuff. Since you went to sata, I imagine that you have an ide to sata adapter.
There may have been other stuff, but I just followed directions.
Good luck,
hj
It can't be installed unless you have a WD product on your machine. I would imagine that it could find your drive waiting to be cloned. I had a WD USB drive so I used that to install it and then added the new drive.
I just put the 2nd drive on the splitter cable and ran their stuff. Since you went to sata, I imagine that you have an ide to sata adapter.
There may have been other stuff, but I just followed directions.
Good luck,
hj
I just forgot about formatting the drive. I know there used to be some drives that were preformatted. I just plain forgot about it.
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