Well, I bought a new HDD because my original HDD didn't have enough space for me. What I'm doing is, basicly, taking an image of my original HDD with Norton Ghost 9.0, and I want to copy that image over to my new, larger HDD. I want my new one to become the primary bootdrive, and my old one to become strictly a back-up drive, where I'll store compressed images of my new HDD for back-ups.
I noticed that I can make the new drive the Primary drive, but if I want to make my new drive have 2 parts to it (my old one has a C: and D:, the D: portion being a recovery area), how would I do that to my new one? And, also, would I be able to re-name my new HDD to C: (and D: )? I'll have to re-name the old one first, right? Does assigning the drive a new letter format the drive, or just change the drive's paths w/out formatting the drive? I'm going to re-format the old one, so it only has 1 drive for it, also.
So, in a nutshell, I'll end up like this:
Drives C: and D: on my current HDD will be re-formatted to be 1 drive instead of 2. I'll wanna re-name it to something else.
My new drive (currently H: ), will become the boot drive, and I'll want to change the drive's letter from H: to C: and D:, so that I can copy the drive image backups I made in Norton Ghost, over to my new HDD (H.
So, Do I have to change the letters of Drive C: and D: first to something else? And then re-format (or would I add a partition?) drive H: so I can make it into Drives C: and D:.
After I get this all lworked out, I'm going to re-format my old HDD (Drives C: and D: ) so it becomes 1 full drive.
If I've confused you, I'm sorry. Please ask if you want me to explain it better. Thanks a lot for any help you can give me!
I noticed that I can make the new drive the Primary drive, but if I want to make my new drive have 2 parts to it (my old one has a C: and D:, the D: portion being a recovery area), how would I do that to my new one? And, also, would I be able to re-name my new HDD to C: (and D: )? I'll have to re-name the old one first, right? Does assigning the drive a new letter format the drive, or just change the drive's paths w/out formatting the drive? I'm going to re-format the old one, so it only has 1 drive for it, also.
So, in a nutshell, I'll end up like this:
Drives C: and D: on my current HDD will be re-formatted to be 1 drive instead of 2. I'll wanna re-name it to something else.
My new drive (currently H: ), will become the boot drive, and I'll want to change the drive's letter from H: to C: and D:, so that I can copy the drive image backups I made in Norton Ghost, over to my new HDD (H.
So, Do I have to change the letters of Drive C: and D: first to something else? And then re-format (or would I add a partition?) drive H: so I can make it into Drives C: and D:.
After I get this all lworked out, I'm going to re-format my old HDD (Drives C: and D: ) so it becomes 1 full drive.
If I've confused you, I'm sorry. Please ask if you want me to explain it better. Thanks a lot for any help you can give me!