Connecting two HardDisks.....

[ravisoni]

Hi guys...

I want to transfer data from harddisk1 to the second. kindly tell the procedure for the same right from their connection.

[tyty]

Hi guys...

I want to transfer data from harddisk1 to the second. kindly tell the procedure for the same right from their connection.

ok hi here is step disconnect your hdd and connect it into other pc and here is jumper seting so set the jumper and access your data.

[Hardwareman]

OK lets start with the installation I'd recommend you should simply add the second one and keep the first one here is a guide (with video). I'd does mention changing the jumper settings to master and slave but you don't have to do this if they are both set for cable select and the old drive (the one with Windows on it) is the one on the end of the IDE cable.

So why keep the first one ? If it ain't broke and all that. If you try too copy all your files across you'll break Windows (even an admin doesn't have access to every folder) and the majority of your programs, why ? well this will be a new drive so all the paths in the system registry will be wrong (as you initially installed it on c: your new one will be something else). The only way to do this, apart from making a ghost image (see below), will require you to reinstall Windows and all your programs.

Your "data" files (music, video, photo's etc) will all be fine to move as you don't install them.

Now you can do what you want by using a ghost program or even Windows back up to create an exact image of your Windows installation burn it to disk, setup Windows on the new drive then put your image or restore your backup but to be honest it a pain and much easier to keep thing as they are.

So what I would do is keep the old one, install the new one move the movable files off the old one to the new one. You can install new programs on this new drive as the it will 'register' properly or if you want to 'move' your old programs you can but you'll need to uninstall them first then reinstall them on the new drive (if you know what your doing you can do this manually via the registry but if you don't know what your doing it's best to be avoided. This is the least painful way imo.)

[Fabian]

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[RoninBlade]

For the least work by you, the new hard disk should be Slave.
The BIOS's *default* HD boot order is,
Master, ch. 0,
Slave, ch. 0.
Master, ch. 1,
Slave, ch. 1.

This means that the BIOS will, by default, look first to the Master on IDE ch. 0 for a HD with a valid MBR to which to pass control. If there is no HD there with a valid MBR, it will look to see if there is a Slave on IDE ch. 0 with a valid MBR to which to pass control. And etc.

Your BIOS is now set with this default HD boot order, and your boot files are on the Master HD. You could move this HD to the Slave position on the same cable (i.e. on the same IDE channel), but you would have to reset the HD boot order so that that HD is listed first in the HD boot order in order for the Slave HD's MBR to get control.

Alternately, you could leave the BIOS's HD boot order as it is and make the new HD Master and move the boot files from the old HD onto the new HD and make the boot.ini file point to the old HD (which will be called "rdisk(1)") in order to load the OS from the old HD. If there are more than 1 partition on the new HD, the partition containing the boot files must be a Primary partition and it must be marked "active".

As you can see, it's much easier (but much less educational) to just make the new data HD something other than Master on ch. 0 so that the old HD will continue to control booting.