I have an HP PC that's about 4 years old and the Hard drive is running loud. I need a new one, but the current one is still working fine. Just loud.
Thing is my computer didnt come with any startup disks, and when I reformat it pulls the stuff from a partition on the drive.
Im not a complete ****** when it comes to computers, but i dont know how to get the new HD to be reformatted from the old, original HD. Do i just set it to slave? Or do I need to get the disks from HP? Or do I just dump everything from my current drive to the new drive?
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Any help would be great.
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When I bought a new HDD a while back they had the whole process outlined. For my particular drive they had me install it as a slave, run the bootable CD that came with it and use their utility to copy the image of your current drive to the new one. Then they had me set the new one to master and the old one to slave and it works just fine.
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When I bought a new HDD a while back they had the whole process outlined. For my particular drive they had me install it as a slave, run the bootable CD that came with it and use their utility to copy the image of your current drive to the new one. Then they had me set the new one to master and the old one to slave and it works just fine.
That's cool and all but who the hell are you?
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Just dump everything to the new drive.
Install the drive, boot up, control panel, administrative tools, computer management, storage, disk management.
You can format the second drive from there with the same size partitions as your current drive, copy everything over, install windows from the new copy of the recovery partition, and wipe everything on the old drive.
Install the drive, boot up, control panel, administrative tools, computer management, storage, disk management.
You can format the second drive from there with the same size partitions as your current drive, copy everything over, install windows from the new copy of the recovery partition, and wipe everything on the old drive.
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