Putting in a New Hard Drive and Copying from the Old Drive

To install a new hard drive, follow the following procedure:

1. Turn on the computer. Check that it is working properly. Turn off the computer and remove the plug. Ground the computer by touching a metal part for a few seconds.
2. Open the computer case and remove the cable from the existing hard drive. Screw the new computer into an available slot. Use the cable from the old drive to attach the new drive to the system. At this point, only one hard drive is connected to the computer.
3. Turn on the computer. If needed, fdisk and format the new drive. Set Drive C: in that drive as the active partition. Fdisk will not allow you set an active partition if the other drive is attached.
4. Turn off the computer, removing the cable and grounding as before. You now have two options:
   1. Attach the old drive to the primary IDE cable
      1. That old drive can be set as the Master
      2. The new drive can be set as the slave
   2. The new drive can be installed on the secondary IDE cable.
      Jumper settings are irrelevant at this point, since there will be no need for the CD drive.
5. Turn on the computer. After it is finished loading Windows, turn off all of the programs that are running Explorer and Systray. Turn off the screen saver. Open My Computer. Use "My Computer" to determine the available drives. The old drive that you booted from is Drive C:. The new large drive will have one or more letters, either D: or greater.
6. Make a decision about the drive that the data will be sent to.
7. Assuming the you are copying data from Drive C: to Drive D:,
   Click Start, Run, and then type
   xcopy.exe C:\*.* D:\*.* /R /I /C /H /K /E /Y
8. After the Xcopy procedure is complete, shut down the computer as before. Set up the new drive as the primary master. If the old drive will remain on the system (not recommended), then set it up as the slave.
9. Turn on the computer.
10. Sometimes the new drive gives a message that Windows had been shut down improperly, and it will run scandisk. That is normal.

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