UPGRADING C/D DRIVE TO 250GB & MEORY TO 756MB

[glendalf81]

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Originally Posted by visionary71

Thanks again, you were correct, I must have hit the wrong download. all is now correct and I can have a max of 512mb.

is that max module size or complete maximum cos that sounds a little low unless your computer is over 8 years old,

what socket type is your CPU?

[visionary71]

Thanks again for your response. My CPU is "Willamete" 1.70Ghz. Socket type 478mPGA.
Any more info is welcome

[visionary71]

I am now considering to install the new 250gb as main drive and to be partitioned for `D' . If I copy my whole 80gb main drive to my 300gb `slave' drive can I copy it back without loss when my replacement 250gb drive is installed?

[glendalf81]

hi thanks for the info on your cpu i would try and upgrade to 768mb of ram as 512 does seem a little low on a 478 socket mobo, sometimes SIW makes a mistake but not all the time

as for your hard drive question i have never tried to copy twice but i dont see any reason why it would not be ok unless there is data on the 300gb slave that you want to keep because when you do copy a hard drive it completely erases the target drive, also i forgot to mention when you do copy a hard drive it will partition the target hard drive to the size of the drive you where copying leaving the rest unallocated, you will then have to create a new partition with the unallocated space using the same file system and then merge the two partitions

[visionary71]

Thanks agin for advice, I will see how I get on. I now need to go shopping!!
Best wishes

[ShyguyXPC]

just copy the important data from your current boot drive, be it folders or files or whatever, to a dedicated section (for example make a folder on the 300GB drive called "Old 80GB C Drive" or something, whatever you want), & copy any important data from the old drive to it... for example you can copy many if not all the folders in the My Documents folder to it, etc etc... then with the new drive, once windows is reinstalled (assuming its the same version as now, if its XP now & you'll reinstall XP with the new drive), then copy the folders back to the My Documents folder, some like My Pictures will ask if you want to over write them, just click yes & the stuff should be there (just remember to copy & paste, not cut & paste, sometimes doing the latter if something screws up, the data "cut" to the clipboard is lost, so can't try a 2nd time)

one method of backing up important data.