i want to install a new harddrive in my desktop computer how do i do that step by step?
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1. Unplug all computer connections.\n2. Take off computer case.\n3. Find the cord going from your existing hard drive to the motherboard. There should be a free connection there somewhere.\n4. Plug in the new hard drive into that empty slot.\n5. You should see a 4 prong power cord coming from your existing hard drive. Find another one coming out of your power supply and plug it into your other hard drive.\n6. Screw in your new hard drive.\n7. Shut case and plug cables back in.\n8. Restart computer. Your computer should recognize the hard drive regardless of OS.\n\nPlease note that while these instructions work fine for installing hard drives on my computer, they might not work very well for yours. I'd get a second oppinion before you go tinkering w/ your computer if you've never done it before. Also, consult your computer manual for more detailed instructions.
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Well if your new drive does not have an OS on and it is set to the slave drive(most commonly read as the hd0), then it should simply be accessible in your My Computer. Once you have opened My Computer, just open up the Master HDD and copy the files you want by right clicking them and selecting copy. Then open up the Slave HDD and right click and select paste. But it would be wise to create a folder structure on the slave drive firs before pasting the files. to do this right click, once you've opened the drive, and select New then select Folder. At this point you will be able to name the folder.\nOn the other hand if you have loaded an OS on the Slave drive and have a dual booting machine(where you can select which OS to operate on) then the best answer for this situation would to start the computer from the Master HDD. And back up the files onto a Thumb Drive. Then restart the computer using the Slave HDD and copy the files from the Thumb Drive to your new HDD.\n\nHope I have helped you out.
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Plug the drive in, right click My computer and choose manage, detect the drive, and format it NTFS or FAT32
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just remove the hard drive and stick it into the new one.
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If both of the PCs are desktop PCs, just take out the hard drive from your old PC and put it as secondary drive in your new PC. It should be automaticaly found and you can either keep it like that or copy all your files (like from one folder to another) and then move back the old drive. If you think you can't do this, you can also go to best buy or circuit city and for about $85 they will do it for you.
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Just put your old hard drive in as a slave drive and then copy the files you want to the new hard drive. You obviously cannot get programs (unless it is just a single exe. file and nothing else) because it has to be installed and it is a different operating system.
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You would need to buy a hard drive caddy, similar to this.\n\nhttp://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-2-0-HDD-HARD-DISK-DRIVE-CADDY-CASE-ENCLOSURE-PC-MAC_W0QQitemZ8805071844QQcategoryZ96894QQtcZphotoQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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take the hard drive out and stick it into your other computer
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Insert your Windows Operating System disk and reboot.  Check the BIOS settings if it won't reboot.   Once you reboot, begin the installation.  When it gets to the point of WHERE, select that partition for Deletion, then allow the installation program to format the hard drive.  \n\nIf you do not have the Windows installation disk, GET ONE. \n\nGood luck
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You can also upgrade from Windows 98. Boot from the Win 98 CD and format the hard disk, then install.
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Hi, you will want to install a new hard drive. You can leave the old one in. You will have to move the jumper on the old one and set it to "slave" Put your new drive where the old one was. Put the jumper on the new drive where the jumper was on the old drive initially. This will make the new drive "master" It is probably like this by default.\n\nYou can now throw away the one that is about to break completely.\n\nNow you will install windows fresh on your new drive. Once in windows, you have an extra drive(old one). You can now move any information you need from the old drive to the new drive without having to boot to it.\n\nhope that helps....if you need more assistance, edit your post or feel free to shoot me an email. It's not very complicated to do this.  No need to stress!
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It should be USB so if you are using Windows XP it will automatically install the correct drivers. If you have any other O/S you will need to use the driver CD that came with the drive.
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you have to format and name the drive using the admin tools then it will show up as a drive\n\nuse control panel/admin tools/computer management/storage then disk management right clcik the new drive and format as ntfs and the drive should show up in "My Computer"
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Easiest way is to use the utilities available from the hard drive manufacturer.  All new hard drives come with a CD that gives you the option to copy everything from your old hard drive to your new one.  Plug in both drives, boot from the CD, and copy.  This is probably the best way as it doesn't use an operating system to copy contents over to the new drive (the operating system locks/hide certain files while in use).  It would, of course, only serve them well to provide such a feature.
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If you just want to transfer data to the new drive, you can get an adapter to plug it into the hdd cable of a desktop. Alternately you can by an external hdd case, w/ USB adapter, rebuild your system onto the new hdd, then copy the important data from the old one. In any case I would not rely on the old hdd once you have gotten your data off of it, if it is beginning to show faults the end is probably near.
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right click "My computer" -> select "Manage" -> "Disk Management" -> locate your usb hard drive -> right click it and choose "Change drive letter and paths".\n\nThis should help
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The easiest way would be to take the hard drive out of the laptop and hook it up to another PC.  There's no need to buy anything extra if you've got an extra bay available.  \n\nHere's a good tutorial for it:\nhttp://www.ehow.com/how_6030_install-second-hard.html\n\nWhen you're done copying, just unhook it from the data cables and power supply.  That's it.