EPS Sniper
Gawd
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I want to upgrade the current 40gb 7200rpm (only 2mb cache) harddrive I have with something bigger and faster (I was thinking 80gigs and 8mb cache). However, I was wondering what would be the best way to transfer several large folders at once.
The reason I am asking this is because my music folder is at around 5gb. To back this up on cd would take more than 7 cds, plus I dont want to risk the cds being burned badly. I was thinking about hooking up the new drive, formatting it, installing xp, etc, then hook up the other drive as slave, transfer the files, then format the old drive so that I can have an extra 40gb of storage. Does all of this make sense? Also, will I slow down my new drive by having a drive with 2mb of cache connected?
Any help is really appreciated. If I put this in the wrong forum, please feel free to move it.
Thanks
The reason I am asking this is because my music folder is at around 5gb. To back this up on cd would take more than 7 cds, plus I dont want to risk the cds being burned badly. I was thinking about hooking up the new drive, formatting it, installing xp, etc, then hook up the other drive as slave, transfer the files, then format the old drive so that I can have an extra 40gb of storage. Does all of this make sense? Also, will I slow down my new drive by having a drive with 2mb of cache connected?
Any help is really appreciated. If I put this in the wrong forum, please feel free to move it.
Thanks