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PHasing out old hard drive...

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I originally wanted to backup my original hard drive onto my new 200gb hd, but I have decided to strat from scratch...I still want to keep some files from the old drive.

if i slave the old drive and install winxp on the new one, will it conflict with the old one that already had windows on it?
 
If you are making the new drive the main drive, it will not see the old drive and your installation will go smoothly. Install the new drive as the slave drive and XP will show, on boot up, a dual boot up setup. The old XP and the new XP and give you the option of which one you want to boot up. I would also advise that you switch the drive cables so the old drive will show as the slave drive. I have come up with longevity XP software problems if you use Norton’s Works program and you have not deleted the old XP system off the now secondary drive. If Works finds that it is missing a system file, it has a possibility to take a file from your old XP setup instead of taking it out from the new Windows cab file system. It does not happen very often but I have come up with this problem more than once.
If at all possible always go with a new installation and put your new drive as the master drive. It will give you a quirk free install. Then you can delete the old Windows folder and the Documents and Settings folder on the old drive. Look at your Documents and Settings folder and see if there is anything you need to keep and then delete the whole thing. Then at your leisure you can transfer needed files to the new drive without problems.
 
I will reinforce Rembrandt's suggestions with this additional tip: Only have the new drive hooked up when you are installing Windows. Weird things can happen like putting the boot record/NTLDR on the old drive, etc if the old drive is 'seen' during setup. It will also save you from accidentally formatting your old drive with all of your data with the setup program o_0
 
DougLite said:
I will reinforce Rembrandt's suggestions with this additional tip: Only have the new drive hooked up when you are installing Windows. Weird things can happen like putting the boot record/NTLDR on the old drive, etc if the old drive is 'seen' during setup. It will also save you from accidentally formatting your old drive with all of your data with the setup program o_0
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Indeed. Will also cause less confusion if there are more than three partitions across the two disks.
 
I was already assuming (gotta remind myself people cant read minds) a fresh install on the new drive, and then adding the old later to transfer files.
Sorry if I oversimplified.
 
nothing to it. just transfer files from ur old hd to ur new one, then wipe ur old hd clean then do whatever u want with it. or u can use it as an extract backup.
 
Adding to all of this, if you've set any explicit permissions you'll need to take ownership of the directories/files after the install to get them back, particularly any in the documents and settings directory.
 
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