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JohnSDavison Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: "System Upgrade" 04-05-02, 12:16z  Hi, I'm in the process of upgrading my PC and have reached the point where I want to move the second hard drive from my old system to the new system. I'd appreciate it if someone here could advise on the best way to go about this. I'm very nervous about making the change as I had terrible problems when originally fitting the second drive on the old system - I ended up having to completely reload EVERYTHING from scratch. I don't want to end up with TWO unusable systems this time! The current situation is thus: OLD SYSTEM: running Windows 98 with a partitioned (via Partition Magic V4) hard drive as C: E: F: G: H: drives. The second hard drive is set up as the D: drive and is used specifically to hold data for one application. NEW SYSTEM: running Windows ME (I know, I know...) currently with an unpartitioned 40GB C: drive. What I'd like to know is: 1. What do I need to do to move the second hard drive from the old system to the new system? Do I have to use the "remove device" facility in the Device Manager before physically removing the disk from the old system or can I just take it out and the system will know it's no longer there (sort of the opposite of Plug 'n Play)? 2. Will the device letters on the old system stay as they are, or will those following the D: drive (now removed) all move up by one? 3. Will the data currently on the second hard drive still be accessible when I move it to the new system? Or will it get destroyed or otherwise made non-accessible in the process. I'll be backing it up first, but there are vast amounts of it (tens of gigabytes) and it would be nice not to have to restore it all after moving the disk. 4. Can I just install the second drive on the new system and let Plug 'n Play take care of everything? Or is there something else I should do? 4. I have an old version of Partition Magic (V4) which still does everything I need on Windows 98. Is it possible to still use this successfully under Windows ME on the new system to partition the C: drive? Or will I have to upgrade to the latest version (even more expense!). The new system improves everything (CPU speed, memory, disk space, and graphics capability) by at least a factor of four over the old system, so I'm really looking forward to getting FS2K2 up and running on it. Many thanks for any help you guys can give. Regards....John Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      System Upgrade    JohnSDavison       04-05-02              RE: System Upgrade    Madape       04-05-02       1            RE: System Upgrade    JohnSDavison       04-05-02       2            RE: System Upgrade    BillC       09-12-02       5         RE: System Upgrade    Mike_Greenwood       04-06-02       3            RE: System Upgrade    JohnSDavison       04-06-02       4                 RE: System Upgrade    RobertVA       09-12-02       6

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