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very angry mobster · Post by **very angry mobster** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:01 am

My hard drive chrashed today so I went out and bought a new one (200GB

. I needed more space anyway so i don't really mind.

I\m wondering, is it possiable to transfere my current copy of windows XP with all of its settings etc to the new drive? or do i need to install everything from scratch?

shannon

very angry mobster · Post by **very angry mobster** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:04 am

oh.. windows won't boot up anymore, but if i use a bootdisk I can still access the data on the drive. I ran scandisk and found a couple of disk errors but it keeps freezing mid scan.

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:09 am

If I were you, I'd take out the old f-ed up drive, and do a fresh install of Windows on the new one. THEN put your old drive in as a slave and transfer your important data off it. You may be able to find key files (like your Outlook .pst file if you use Outlook), but the last thing I'd be worrying about is a direct transfer of settings.

I'd just want to get my data off that sucker before it craps out PERMANENTLY and won't even spin up any more.

Greg

Jeremy_NSL · Post by **Jeremy_NSL** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:10 am

no, you can't transfer your old copy of windows over. you may be able to salvage your programs, but some will likely require a reinstall.

about scandisk freezing: that doesn't sound good. if your drive is still under warranty, send it back. otherwise its probably a paperweight.

very angry mobster · Post by **very angry mobster** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:21 am

The drive only contains program data, so i'm not that worried. I was just hoping to avoid re-installing everything and tweaking windows settings all over again. It was just starting to work really nicely.

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:26 am

I've found that the more times I've done a fresh install, the easier it is to do my tweaks anew. This'll be a BIT quicker than the first time, and the next time you do it, she'll go like a charm.

Greg

very angry mobster · Post by **very angry mobster** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:29 am

you almost make it sound fun..

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:40 am

Only in the same way pulling teeth is fun.

Greg

very angry mobster · Post by **very angry mobster** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 8:48 am

well i've started formating the new drive.. its going to be an exciting evening.

Thanks Floyd and Lunch Money.

very angry mobster · Post by **very angry mobster** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:35 am

ok, another query. I've bought a 200gb hard drive, but in windows it only shows up as 111gb. When I ran Fdisk, it was reported as being about 48000mb.

any suggestions to what i've done wrong?

i used fdisk to create 1 (dos maybe) partition using 100% of the space. Then i formatted it and installed windows.

cobalt · Post by **cobalt** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:01 pm

Some hardware formats only support drives up to 137GB. Both the motherboard and the OS have to support larger disc sizes (I think XP is fine, but ME is not). You may have run into this problem. If the motherboard doesn't support larger drive sizes, you might be able to install an IDE controller (PCI card) that does. I'm not sure, but another alternative might be to create the 111GB drive and run a partition program on the remaining, unallocated space to create additional partitions.

I'm not an expert or anything, but I recently researched the issue when looking for a large capacity hard drive. Posting your specs might be helpful.

cobalt

DevonB · Post by **DevonB** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:20 pm

I just did a 200 gig drive myself a couple of weeks ago, so let's see what I still remember.

There is a 137GB limitation because of the 48 bit addressing scheme. As long as you're running XP, the OS should see the whole 200 GB. Yes, I did freak out too when it didn't see the whole drive. Just go into Disk Management and see what it says. Just make sure the BIOS is set for auto-config as well.

It was only REALLY old systems and old OS's that didn't support it. Most likley, if you have a processor in the gigahertz speed range, and running XP, you should be able to get what you need.

If you can't get it to find the rest of the drive, do a search on 137GB limitation. You should find all the info you need, I promise you that.

devon

Durk · Post by **Durk** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:03 pm

A guy I know also managed to get the full size of his hard drive through Windows, despite his hardware didn't support that size. Kinda software solution it is... But when he moved his hard drive to another computer, all the data was turned into garbage. Probably it would work again if he changed the hard drive immidiately back into the original computer. But... he fiddled a little bit around to make it work ... and with that he destroyed all his data...

I don't know the details, so maybe the destination OS wasn't XP. Anyway, be careful! The software solutions aren't as solid as hardware solutions. Not "solid" as in "stable", but as in "portability" and "compatibility".

Oops, it looks like I'm talking about synths...

But no, I'm favouring software synths..

very angry mobster · Post by **very angry mobster** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 1:25 am

I'm running win Xp, with a Asus P4b533 motherboard. 2.4ghz cpu.

i'll have a look into those limitations now..

Help! my hard drive just crashed :-(