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Greg_Brady

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Adding extra hard drive
« on: June 13, 2004, 09:09:04 PM »
I have an old Gateway 366c with a 4GB drive. I have a 20GB drive out of a defunct, older Gateway (That has lots of data I don't want to lose) that I would like to install into the Gateway 366c, but keep the 4GB drive as well (have both drives is what I'm trying to say).

I've installed HD's before, but never attempted something like this. Any pointers?

Thanks.
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dl65

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    Re: Adding extra hard drive
    « Reply #1 on: June 13, 2004, 09:17:17 PM »
    Greg....Well if you set the existing hard drive as the master and the new one as the slave it should work for you .....You never said if the 2nd drive has an operating system on it or just data .


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    Greg_Brady

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    Re: Adding extra hard drive
    « Reply #2 on: June 13, 2004, 09:24:21 PM »
    Yes (I'm sorry) it does have an OS - both drives have Windows98.

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      Re: Adding extra hard drive
      « Reply #3 on: June 13, 2004, 09:35:51 PM »
      Greg.....then plug it in as the master ( unplug the existing drive )......save whatever data you want from it and then format it and set it up as the slave with your present drive as the master......

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      Re: Adding extra hard drive
      « Reply #4 on: June 13, 2004, 09:39:50 PM »
      OK, thanks!

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      MalikTous

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      Re: Adding extra hard drive
      « Reply #5 on: June 15, 2004, 03:40:27 PM »
      I'd set up the 20G as master with slave and the 4 as slave, then reinstall the MB stuff (embedded or current Gateway soundcard and video, chipset) and network card and modem, copy any data from the 4G I want, and finally wipe the 4 and use it for a simple data partition.
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      blaster

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      Re: Adding extra hard drive
      « Reply #6 on: June 18, 2004, 08:41:38 AM »
      id be supprised if a 20gig would work in that computer
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      MalikTous

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      Re: Adding extra hard drive
      « Reply #7 on: June 19, 2004, 02:21:27 PM »
      Ontrack Disk Manager. Dynamic Drive Overlay. Patching lame hard drive code in BIOS since 1984...
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