Intel P4, 2.8Ghz (Northwood)
Abit IS-7
1 GB Crucial SD-RAM
Western Digital Caviar SE EIDE WD800 HDD
Viewsonic A91f Monitor
Antec True Power 430
ATI Radeon 9000
Antec Tower
I am upgrading my system with two new HDD's. I have purchased two Western Digital Caviar RE-2 SATA 500 GB internal drives. I am currently running Windows XP Home on the 80 GB WD EIDE HDD.
I would like to have one of the new SATA drives as the boot drive, with the second, a backup. I do not want to set them up as RAID. I would like to keep the current drive as extra storage also. I want to keep much of the data on the current HDD also, with the exception of the OS and program files. Once I have the new drives installed, I want to transfer those files I want to save to the new drives, THEN re-format the old drive.
What would be the best way to proceed to ensure no loss of data on the old drive until I am ready to re-format, and to ensure that I won't have any conflicts during boot-up. Will I have any problems having the OS still on the old HDD, and a fresh install of Windows on one of the new SATA drives? I am confused about this. Thanks for any advice on how to proceed under these circumstances.
Abit IS-7
1 GB Crucial SD-RAM
Western Digital Caviar SE EIDE WD800 HDD
Viewsonic A91f Monitor
Antec True Power 430
ATI Radeon 9000
Antec Tower
I am upgrading my system with two new HDD's. I have purchased two Western Digital Caviar RE-2 SATA 500 GB internal drives. I am currently running Windows XP Home on the 80 GB WD EIDE HDD.
I would like to have one of the new SATA drives as the boot drive, with the second, a backup. I do not want to set them up as RAID. I would like to keep the current drive as extra storage also. I want to keep much of the data on the current HDD also, with the exception of the OS and program files. Once I have the new drives installed, I want to transfer those files I want to save to the new drives, THEN re-format the old drive.
What would be the best way to proceed to ensure no loss of data on the old drive until I am ready to re-format, and to ensure that I won't have any conflicts during boot-up. Will I have any problems having the OS still on the old HDD, and a fresh install of Windows on one of the new SATA drives? I am confused about this. Thanks for any advice on how to proceed under these circumstances.