Ok, so here's the deal:

I'm upgrading the harddrive in my gangster computer. There's only room enough for one drive, so I need to scrap the old one. I have them both set up on a dual 40pin connector now and my plan is just to transfer all the shit on the master drive over to the new drive and take the master drive out. Now, I'm going through this software install program that came with the drive and it's asking if I want to set the new drive up as a boot device or as an 'additional storage drive'. I just need somebody to tell me the gist of what I should do regarding transferring all my master drive stuff over to the new drive and so forth and so on.

EIDE drive if it matters.

Thanks for your expert knowledge,

Scrumples

4/15/2008 4:16:59 PM

If it's the only drive in there it has to be the boot device.

Wait, are you saying you have both drives hooked up right now? Is one of them hanging out or something?

[Edited on April 15, 2008 at 4:23 PM. Reason : s]

4/15/2008 4:22:11 PM

yepper, you want it to be the boot drive...what brand of hard drive? i think the retail maxtors come with acronis trueimage, which works beautifully

4/15/2008 4:22:37 PM

Cool, so set it up as the boot device, then move all my shit over afterwards?

Western Digital drive.

the one in there is some gangster barracuda seagate shit

god i hate IBM

4/15/2008 4:23:37 PM

ahahaha yes one is "hanging out"

Like I said, my plan is to move all the stuff from the master with both of them connected, then reconfig it to serve from only the one new drive.

4/15/2008 4:24:32 PM

i've never used wd's utility, but i would assume (a bad idea, i know) that you can just ghost one to another using its wizard (i know seagate/maxtor does this)...at the very worst, "borrow" a copy of acronis or ghost and do it that way, but i don't think you need to do that

4/15/2008 4:27:31 PM

basically, its utility is asking me how i want to set it up, then yes, I've seen the option to copy all my C: to (wherever)...

So, go ahead on this? I'm really afraid of fucking something up apparently...

4/15/2008 4:29:07 PM

Actually, it's doing everything I wanted to do in one procedure.

See, I told you I was stupid.

4/15/2008 4:48:46 PM

4/15/2008 4:51:01 PM

*carl face*

4/15/2008 5:31:08 PM

delete this thread so my idiocy doesnt show!

4/15/2008 6:55:58 PM