Is It Safe To Move A Hdd?

[raiserblade2003]

i was wondering if its safe to move my current hdd to the comp im building for my sister's friend's sister to see if everythign work alright. after i see there is no problem, im gonna installed it on this comp again. is it safe to do so? could i lose ne data doing that?

[Broken]

I've done it with a slave drive before.
I wouldn't recommend doing it with the one that has your OS on it.

[raiserblade2003]

yup, this is the one drive that i have. so its the one w/ the os on it. so i cant do it?

[Broken]

I don't know of any problem that you would run into...
Just as long as the other computer is able to run all the programs on the drive.
I still wouldn't wanna try it though.

[TheFilePirater]

yes it possibly, except it might not work all right... cuz everything is setup for your computer.....hardware...(video card, modem, moniter, cd drivers)....

[bob_the_alien]

You can do it, It's possible that you will lose data, but unlikely.

However to get the other computer completely up and running, you will have to install drivers, so you're going to have multiply drivers on the system, which won't be a big problem.

[raiserblade2003]

driver wont be much of a problem becuz it has same sound and vid card.

[SingaBoiy]

I do it all the time to transfer files from my couputer to my parents. They have an 80 gb and a 15 and i use the 15 to go back and forth.

[bob_the_alien]

Originally posted by SingaBoiy@29 November 2003 - 23:26
I do it all the time to transfer files from my couputer to my parents. They have an 80 gb and a 15 and i use the 15 to go back and forth.
Yes, but with him, it's bit different, cuz he's actually using the HDD with the OS on it, so It will be the main drive on both system.

This can cause some problem, but I really don't think he has to worry about it, It should be fine.

[raiserblade2003]

oh, and i want to do a clean install of window xp but i want to keep the 6 gigs of games i just dled, is this possible? or when i do the installed i would have to wipe everything off the hdd.

[Broken]

It's always a good idea to do a full format.
Just back the games up on cd's dvd's or another drive if you have it.

[raiserblade2003]

Originally posted by Broken@30 November 2003 - 05:42
It's always a good idea to do a full format.
Just back the games up on cd's dvd's or another drive if you have it.
but i dont have a dvd burner....and 6 to 7 gigs of games....kotor alone is going ot be 4 disc, then come nfsu, then midnight, then morrowwind, then cod, and then, gta vc, so it add up to quite a lot of cds

kotor 4
nfsu 2
midnight club 2- 2
morrowind 2
gta vc 2
cod is 2 i think, havent unrar it yet

so possibly 12 cds....which equal to 12 movies.....i need a dvd burner....

[Broken]

Anything you wanna keep, back it up. Not just because you're gonna reformat. One day you will be thankfull you did. :)

[raiserblade2003]

so theres no way for me to save some stuff during installation of winxp?

[Broken]

If the data is in the same partition has the OS you plan on replacing there is no way that I know of to save it... that is unless it can be backup on disk or another drive and replaced afterwards.

Why are you wanting to do a fresh install? Are you having problems? Is it really needed?

[raiserblade2003]

cuz my comps is getting slow lately and i tried defrag like 15x this week. i check the task manager and nothing is hogging resources. and im starting to urn out of space. i try deleting stuff but for some reason, somethign else is taking up space becuz when i delete almost everythign except the games and movies, theres is still almost 10gig of "i have no clue what is using that"

[Broken]

Are you using a program like window washer to get rid of junk files?
A program like diskeeper can rearrange the information on you hard drive to increase speed.

[Broken]

might also wanna get a program like norton systemworks.

[clocker]

Originally posted by raiserblade2003@29 November 2003 - 22:58
so theres no way for me to save some stuff during installation of winxp?
Sure there is.
Before you do the install, create a new partition. Copy anything you want to save into this new partition.
When you install Windows it will just format C:, leaving the rest of your drive alone.

[raiserblade2003]

ty clocker *give big wet kiss*

[clocker]

Originally posted by raiserblade2003@29 November 2003 - 23:09
cuz my comps is getting slow lately and i tried defrag like 15x this week. i check the task manager and nothing is hogging resources. and im starting to urn out of space. i try deleting stuff but for some reason, somethign else is taking up space becuz when i delete almost everythign except the games and movies, theres is still almost 10gig of "i have no clue what is using that"
While a format/reinstall may solve your problem for now, I'd still try very hard to find out what is eating up "almost 10gig of "i have no clue what is using that".

That's a lot of space to leave unaccounted.

Unless you are a Labrador retreiver, no more big wet kisses, please. :P

[kazaaliterock]

Originally posted by clocker@30 November 2003 - 07:31


Unless you are a Labrador retreiver, no more big wet kisses, please. :P
:o :o :o :o *give big wet KISSES*

[kazaaliterock]

Originally posted by clocker+30 November 2003 - 07:24--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (clocker @ 30 November 2003 - 07:24)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-raiserblade2003@29 November 2003 - 22:58
so theres no way for me to save some stuff during installation of winxp?
Sure there is.
Before you do the install, create a new partition. Copy anything you want to save into this new partition.
When you install Windows it will just format C:, leaving the rest of your drive alone. [/b][/quote]
hehe how do u create a partion :"> :-"

[bob_the_alien]

Originally posted by kazaaliterock@30 November 2003 - 00:55
hehe how do u create a partion :"> :-"
Download a program like Partition Magic. After that it will all be simple.

[kazaaliterock]

partition magic keep saying "a new partition could not be created on drive 1"

so now what do i do? i have no clue on what to do next.

[tesco]

right click your current partition and go to resize then create a new partition using up all the space took away from the first partition and then apply it...it wil have to restart the computer to apply the changes and sometimes takes a while.

[clocker]

Originally posted by kazaaliterock@30 November 2003 - 00:40
partition magic keep saying "a new partition could not be created on drive 1"

so now what do i do? i have no clue on what to do next.
How big is your drive and how full is it now?

[raiserblade2003]

its an 80gig and its about 60gig full :(

[clocker]

Well, you only need 5, maybe 10 GB for your OS and programs.
The problem will be getting this set up.
I wonder why PM won&#39;t set up another partition with the empty 20GBs?