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Transplanting System To New Drive
I have an IBM P3-450 with 256 MB (the max) and a 12.1 GB hard drive with 500 MB of free space. I run Win 98SE. My system started seizing up intermittently (seizing = freezing temporarily for several seconds), and I'm figuring that this might be due to the fact that I'm forcing my system to use virtual memory and it has such little free space on my hard disk.
So, I bought a new 40 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM hard disk. Even if the new HD doesn't fix the seizing, I wanted more space anyway, so it's still a good purchase.
MY QUESTION:
I would like to install the new, bigger HD as my boot drive, transplant (cut and paste) my Win 98SE system from my original (12.1 GB) drive, and use the 12.1 GB drive as auxilliary storage.
How can I do this?
What, if any, problems might there be?
How should I configure my swap files (how many, which drive(s), size(s)) and how do I do this?
Thanks,
mjw
So, I bought a new 40 GB Western Digital 7200 RPM hard disk. Even if the new HD doesn't fix the seizing, I wanted more space anyway, so it's still a good purchase.
MY QUESTION:
I would like to install the new, bigger HD as my boot drive, transplant (cut and paste) my Win 98SE system from my original (12.1 GB) drive, and use the 12.1 GB drive as auxilliary storage.
How can I do this?
What, if any, problems might there be?
How should I configure my swap files (how many, which drive(s), size(s)) and how do I do this?
Thanks,
mjw
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I'd strongly suggest you try out some different settings for virtual memory first, to see if you can get rid of the seizures.... Why ghost a malfunctioning system?
Try defragment your HD and then set the page file (virtual memory space) to a defined value (max=min=256MB, if you have 256 MB free on the drive).
Find out what programs are running and close the unneeded ones.
If you get the system running OK, by all means go ahead with the transplant. You do need to use something like ghost or make your new drive bootable in some other way, before you move windows files.
Regards
/RID
Try defragment your HD and then set the page file (virtual memory space) to a defined value (max=min=256MB, if you have 256 MB free on the drive).
Find out what programs are running and close the unneeded ones.
If you get the system running OK, by all means go ahead with the transplant. You do need to use something like ghost or make your new drive bootable in some other way, before you move windows files.
Regards
/RID
Why did you have to copy and paste your windows 98SE? you could just simply connect the harddirve to your computer, and use it as another drive in windows (as far as i see most computer have 2 Harddrive ports) just set the new drive as the primary slave and the first hard Disk to primary Master in the CMOS system by pressing Del while computer it starting up.
If you would really want to transport your system on to a bigger disk you could just copy and paste all the files on to your bigger harddisk then jus reinstall windows again, Windows will normally keep the old settings and Reg Files anyway after reinstall.
If you would really want to transport your system on to a bigger disk you could just copy and paste all the files on to your bigger harddisk then jus reinstall windows again, Windows will normally keep the old settings and Reg Files anyway after reinstall.
spindreams: Before you do that you have to set Windows Explorer to show all files otherwise hidden files will not be copied. And I am surprised that Western Digital's drive did not have a floppy that would give the option to create a copy of the existing drive on the new hard drive.
Phoenix, if this is an OEM version, it comes with nothing but a bare drive.
Also look at some free or free to try tools to do the drive imaging for you.
http://zdnet.com.com/3000-2248-10147532.html?tag=lst-0-17
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image.html free for 30 days full version
also see
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20092048/New-Hard-Drive.html
I hope this helps !
http://zdnet.com.com/3000-2248-10147532.html?tag=lst-0-17
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image.html free for 30 days full version
also see
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20092048/New-Hard-Drive.html
I hope this helps !
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Hi Folks,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. In the end, it turns out that Western Digital has a utility on a boot floppy that comes with each new HD, which is specifically designed to transplant a system from the old drive to the new one, exactly as I was interested in doing. I used this method, and it worked perfectly.
Benzi_s was first in answering and right on, however, so I'm awarding points to him. Thanks to the rest of you who posted comments as well--they were all helpful and provide useful information for the future.
Regards,
mjw
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. In the end, it turns out that Western Digital has a utility on a boot floppy that comes with each new HD, which is specifically designed to transplant a system from the old drive to the new one, exactly as I was interested in doing. I used this method, and it worked perfectly.
Benzi_s was first in answering and right on, however, so I'm awarding points to him. Thanks to the rest of you who posted comments as well--they were all helpful and provide useful information for the future.
Regards,
mjw
ASKER
Hi Folks,
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. In the end, it turns out that Western Digital has a utility on a boot floppy that comes with each new HD, which is specifically designed to transplant a system from the old drive to the new one, exactly as I was interested in doing. I used this method, and it worked perfectly.
Benzi_s was first in answering and right on, however, so I'm awarding points to him. Thanks to the rest of you who posted comments as well--they were all helpful and provide useful information for the future.
Regards,
mjw
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. In the end, it turns out that Western Digital has a utility on a boot floppy that comes with each new HD, which is specifically designed to transplant a system from the old drive to the new one, exactly as I was interested in doing. I used this method, and it worked perfectly.
Benzi_s was first in answering and right on, however, so I'm awarding points to him. Thanks to the rest of you who posted comments as well--they were all helpful and provide useful information for the future.
Regards,
mjw
As suggested, the best way to copy your drive, is to use such software as Ghost. I prefer that method myself.
Here is an overview of how you can Ghost your drive:
http://ghost.radified.com/
Virtual memory settings i would suggest to set it to at least 1.5 times the amount of ram you have....so technically i would have 768mb of ram for my choice for virtual memory.