Hard Drives - Installing New Hard Drive As Master posted in the Hardware forums; First of all Hi to all here and i hope someone can help.The master hard drive i have at the moment is only 6gb and consequently my pc is at ...
First of all Hi to all here and i hope someone can help.The master hard drive i have at the moment is only 6gb and consequently my pc is at choking point and i need to replace this hard drive with a bigger one.It's an internal hard drive and my pc is ancient but capable of doing everything i need it to.Do i simply disconnect the current HD and replace it with a new one making sure to make it the master? and will i have to re-install Windows 98 and then Windows ME? or can i just re-install Windows ME by itself? Another question is can i use any internal hard drive or do i have to have a specific one for my pc?. Any information you can give will be greatly appreciated and please be patient with my lack of technological know how . thanks
I think that what you should should probably just install the new drive as a secondary/slave driven and just use it as storage for whatever data/programs you need to use.
If you put a new drive in as master it would mean reinstalling the entire operating system and all the programs you currently have, not to mention making sure that all the data you have is safely off the drive first.
There should be a spare connector on the IDE cable to your main drive and hopefully there is another hard drive bay and power cable to put the new drive into.
let us know what you think
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yes i have another Hard drive installed as a slave it is 40gb, but the 6gb hard drive is the master and it has windows installed on it. It's just that my pc is running so slow at the moment i've used various software to clean it up and discarded programs i no longer use but i still only have 1.50 gb space on it, i thought if i install a bigger HD as master it would be better. Any ideas?
Ok then, you should be able to copy the old hard drive to the new one, I'm not sure if there are any free "ghost" type applications out there that would allow you to do this, I'll check around and let you know.
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First of all Hi to all here and i hope someone can help.The master hard drive i have at the moment is only 6gb and consequently my pc is at choking point and i need to replace this hard drive with a bigger one.It's an internal hard drive and my pc is ancient but capable of doing everything i need it to.Do i simply disconnect the current HD and replace it with a new one making sure to make it the master? and will i have to re-install Windows 98 and then Windows ME? or can i just re-install Windows ME by itself? Another question is can i use any internal hard drive or do i have to have a specific one for my pc?. Any information you can give will be greatly appreciated and please be patient with my lack of technological know how 
. thanks 
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