jcjr7 wrote:
>Thanks Christopher for the detail.
>
>
Your welcome
>I will google and barnes and noble my questions also but you might be able to
>clarrify some of my "how to's"
>
>
Ok
>1-How do I tell the if the older drive in on master/single/slave? It is on a
>separate ribbon(coupled with the cd rom) than the new hard drive.
>
>
Well, On your motherboard, there are two connections for the ribbon
cables to be attached to the motherboard: IDE1 n' IDE2. Also, There
should be a setting list on the top of the drive, that shows how to set
the jumpers(those little itty bitty black pieces of plastic that go on
the pins of the drive) so, the drive will be 'Master' or, 'Slave'.
>They are both western digital and I have the jumper setup for the new one so
>maybe they are similar?
>
>
They might be similar, BUT, find the markings stating the models of the
two drives and, then, go to www.google.com and, use the model # plus,
the words 'jumper setting', to pull up the EXACT jumper settings for
setting the 40GB to Slave(prior to the data transfer). Then, you will
have to change the 40GB to 'Master', after the data transfer.
>2-Age of the pc is late 1998.
>
>
I am presuming you have Windows 98 or, 98 SE as the operating system?
>3-How do I run FDisk? Again I will research this also.
>
To run Fdisk, you will need to get to the 'C::>'. To do that, you will
need to bring up the 'Start' menu, then, 'Progams' and, finally,
'Accesories'. When you are to 'Accessories', you should see something
that says 'Drop to DOS' or, something similar to that. Clicking on that
will get you a DOS screen. Make sure you are in the 'root' directory.
If you are not, you will need to get to 'C:>'
>4-The new drive has a command file, and two ibm dos files set up as file
>system FAT while my older C drive is set up FAT 32. I hooked it up just to see
>if it would spin up and forgot to set the jumper! It shows 1.00 Gigs instead
>of 40 gigs so I guess the fix is in the jumper or "format-just how do I
>format?" or in the "partition-just how do I partition the drive?"
>
First, You need to fix the jumpers. After you fix the jumpers, you need
to create the partition with Fdisk then, format it with Format.
>5-From your earlier note I see I should Fdisk first(how to?) to create the new
>partition.
>
>
Fdisk is accessed in DOS. You get to DOS and, type 'fdisk'. It will
bring up a menu where, you can Create, Delete and, Activate partitions.
>6-then I should "format-how to?"
>
>
Since the 40GB will probably be 'D:>' in the beginning, you should type
'format d:\s'. The '\s' is what is known as a 'switch'. The '\s' will
make the drive 'bootable'. As long as the 40GB HD is set to 'Slave' for
the purpose of transferring the data, this will not keep the 10GB from
being the boot drive.
>7- BIOS-setup, When booting up I see where I can go to setup! How will it
>appear in the BIOS? Just a second drive noted, E??
>
>
The specs of the 40GB will show up in the list of HDs. In terms of
'drive letter designation', it will become 'E:>' IF, you have a CD drive
already designated as 'D:>' then, yes, the 40GB will temporarily become E;>
>8-Transfer data after
>
> 1-FDISK-how?
> 2-deleting partitions-how? Does Fdisk do that?
> 3-Create new partition-how?
> 4-set partition to active-how?
> 5-run format to format the partition-how?
>
> I will start researching at barnes and nobles and google, but any short
> cuts on how would be greatly appreciated!
>
Read the detailed instructions I gave above.
Christopher
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