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40 Gig WD to 200 Seagate
I have 2 systems, both were custom built in 2002 1.2 MHZ, both with 40 Gig WD hard drives. My 1 system crapped a month or so ago and I had endless headaches trying to extract data, finally using GetBackData I successfully recovered my precious data. Now, my other system is still running but my thoughts are to install a new hard drive to avoid the 40 Gig WD from crapping out as it is over 4 years old. I bought a Seagate 200 Gig hard drive. Question is can I sucessfully transfer my complete system from the WD to the Seagate? I want the whole operating system, software and files, everything, I want it so when I eventually boot up on the new drive, it will be like I never changed anything. Now looking through some posts, Norton Ghost seems to be the answer. I also seen some posts regarding experts saying it may not be possible since processor may not take that much GB? My old hard drive is IDE, the new Seagate is also IDE. Or am I just not thinking straight by doing some preventative matainance? They are XP machines. Also, I had a couple years back installed 256 MB more RAM to make a total of 512MB. I have 2 memory cards installed, 256 MB each, how can I get more RAM? I have no more slots left.
Thanks in advance...
Thanks in advance...
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Here are my specs: (strange thing, look that the RAM)
Processor
1.20 gigahertz AMD Duron
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
64 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Main Circuit Board b
Board: 8365-8231
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG 07/18/2001
Memory Modules c,d
40.01 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
20.81 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
CD-ROM Drive/G6D
CDWRITER IDE5224 USB Device [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
WDC WD400BB-75CLB0 [Hard drive] (40.02 GB) -- drive 0 504 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'A0' has 256 MB
Slot 'A1' has 256 MB
Slot 'A2' has 256 MB
Slot 'A3' is Empty
Processor
1.20 gigahertz AMD Duron
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
64 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Main Circuit Board b
Board: 8365-8231
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG 07/18/2001
Memory Modules c,d
40.01 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
20.81 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
CD-ROM Drive/G6D
CDWRITER IDE5224 USB Device [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
WDC WD400BB-75CLB0 [Hard drive] (40.02 GB) -- drive 0 504 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'A0' has 256 MB
Slot 'A1' has 256 MB
Slot 'A2' has 256 MB
Slot 'A3' is Empty
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Why am I showing "3" 256 MB ???
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as for the hd copy, ghost will run you some money.... here's what i have done in the past... put the 200 bg in as a slave drive. make a 50 gb partition on it so that you will have a 150 partition, and a 50 partition... backup your machine to the 50 partition
now boot your machine using the disc you made in backup... even better... if you have your install or restore disk for xp.. dont worry about that disk. Just make your new drive the master, and install windows on the 150 partition. now when you finish your install, run backup again and this time choose restore. i have never had a problem with it