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Hard drive trouble, would appreciate help!

Started by Matthauz , Mar 24 2006 06:42 AM

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Matthauz

Posted 24 March 2006 - 06:42 AM

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Hi guys and gals, I've searched the forum and can't find myself an answer for this so here goes!

I have a 80gb hard drive in my current machine running XP. I have just bought a new one with a 160gb drive and no operating system...

MY 80gb drive has all my music, video etc AND my operating system.

How can I get everything onto my new machine without a crossover cable or home networking?

Obviously I will install XP on the new machine first.

Thanks guys!

:whistling:

Edited by Matthauz, 24 March 2006 - 06:59 AM.

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greatmightypoo

Posted 24 March 2006 - 03:49 PM

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I would just add the 80 GB drive as a slave, boot off of the 160 GB that you would have installed windows on, and simply Copy Paste any music, videos, or documents you wanted to keep. Then once you did that you could format the 80 GB (assuming that all important data is saved on the 160) and keep it for an additional 80 GB of storage.