I have installed, or rather someone has installed a new hard drive, which is much larger than my present C drive. Does anyone know how to make the new drive into my primary drive. My computer works at less than snails pace and I would like to make the transition as soon as possible.

regards
Sweetbee

you can make the other drive the main one but you'd need to install the operating system on that drive.

how much RAM have you got?, normally increasing that will speed up a little

Originally Posted by Brain_damage

you can make the other drive the main one but you'd need to install the operating system on that drive.

how much RAM have you got?, normally increasing that will speed up a little

Firstly, thank you for your response.

Unfortunately I do not have the original discs that came with the computer. I inherited the hard drive and monitor only. As for RAM, I have 384 MB of RAM, which I know is more than sufficient for my needs.

Are you saying that I am outside the realms of being helped?

Is there any way at all that this function can be performed successfully without the discs?

Regards
sweetbee

Usually you need the Operating System disk(s).

You can try to "clone" the old drive using GParted.

First you must create a partition on your new drive the exact size as your old partition or drive.

Here is one thread where a user explains the process albeit in bad English:

http://www.d-a-l.com/help/showthread...hlight=gparted

Originally Posted by jephree

Usually you need the Operating System disk(s).

You can try to "clone" the old drive using GParted.

First you must create a partition on your new drive the exact size as your old partition or drive.

Here is one thread where a user explains the process albeit in bad English:

http://www.d-a-l.com/help/showthread...hlight=gparted

Thank you for your suggestions once again.

I have taken a look at the two website suggested and I think I need to do some research before I take the plunge to try to remedy this problem.

I understand thus far the partitioning, however, whether the new drive needs to be completely empty to carry this out is not clear yet. I have read that if files are not backed up (something I have not idea about either) they could be lost and there has been mention of a USB flash drive to store files. Such a lot of information for such a novice as me!

I shall let you know how I get on and of course thank you should my efforts be successful or unsuccessful. So you may be hearing from me at some future date to either laugh with joy or cry in desperation!! :-) This could take a while!!!!!!!!!

Regards
Sweetbee

PS I shall be back in any event with more computer problems - one at a time though!!

i just accomplished a new hard drive install. i had a western digital 60g and replaced it with 2 500`s. i cloned the first drive with "acronis true image".(to make it the boot service) than your choices are to keep your larger drive as the primary C and add your old one as a slave. (your choice). what i did was cloned to the 500, removed the 60 (to keep as a back up) and threw in the other 500.

you can assign the primary and slave drives by using cable select or by setting the jumpers. jumpers is the easiset.

i used partition magic to assign the slave with a partition (formatted it first with that program). now my next step is to move the partition in the primary drive (if thats possible).

kh