What is involved in increasing Hard drive from 60mg to 120mg ?

Question

Desk top, windows xp-home

Answer 1

I'm not sure your question is clear. But I would assume that your hard drive is 120mg and your partitioned it to 60mg. I'm not sure you mean by (mg) mega bytes??! I doubt it, you sure its not (GB) ??

Answer 2

Purchase a Seagate Hard Drive.

Download this free utility from them:

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?lo...

You will install your new hard drive as a second hard drive. You will run that free utility from your current drive. It will then 'clone' your current drive to the new one. Unplug the old one and start using the new drive as the master.

That's basically the short version. Should take about 20 minutes.

Answer 3

Changing or adding a hard drive is a very easy process.  The hard part is transferring the data.  

You could simply replace your existing 60 gig HDD with the bigger unit and then image the drives by using a program like Norton's Ghost.  Or you could just add the second drive as a slave drive and transfer your personal files to it.    

If you choose the second method you will need to do a couple of things.  First you will need to format the new drive.  The new drive should come with software that will do this for you.  Second you must make sure that the jumper are set correctly.  The older, or "C" drive will need to be set to Master, and the second drive will need be set to Slave.  

Once the formatting is done and the jumpers are set correctly, the second drive will show up in "My Computer" and "Windows Explorer".  It will have it's own drive letter and will be very recognizable.  

One last thing.  You are not restricted to a 120 gig drive, you can use any size drive that you wish.  

Answer 4

1. Start computer with old drive, backup everythong you don't want to lose (don't do anything else until this is done).

2. Buy new, bigger drive.

3. Power off the computer. Open computer case, remove old drive, carefully.

4. Plug in the new drive the same way as you unplugged the old one. Mount the drive in the case.

5. Insert Windows XP CD in drive, boot computer, install XP.

That's it.