Restore DVD and new HDD

[docmeyer]

This is going to be a dumb question, here goes.
I have a 80GB EIDE hard drive in my home computer, its gone belly up...dumb question time. If I buy a 160GB EIDE hard drive and use my restore DVD will it work?

Thanks in advance,

~d

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[stduc]

It depends on if there were any 'special' partitions on that old drive that 'helped' the restore DVD. But I would expect it to work. It might only create an 80GB C drive and leave you to create the rest later as a D drive. But it is good practise to keep the C drive small - 30GB should be plenty. Without going into details a smaller C drive and the rest as D - or E or whatever speeds things up.

 

[docmeyer]

Thanks for the reply.
Its just a cheezeball eMachine, so I doubt it has any special partitions. If it creates a 80GB I can build the rest through disk mangler. Thanks for the reply. Now I have to talk my wife through doing this 6000 miles away, any tips for that, LOL!!!



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[wahnula]

Now I have to talk my wife through doing this 6000 miles away, any tips for that, LOL!!!

Patience and a good phone connection. It should be pretty easy...but warn her she will no longer have her emails, pictures etc. it's better to be 6000 miles away for that one...

But hey maybe you can recover the stuff upon your return if she removes the disk now and LEAVES IT OUT OF THE COMPUTER!!!

Tony

 

[docmeyer]

I was clever enough to add an additional hard drive and redirect My Doc's to it...but now I am beginning to wonder if that additional hard drive killed the power supply. Gonna talk to her soon, then again, haven't heard of a power supply die with clunking sounds before...

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[docmeyer]

Aaaah, the big "e" when she boots it up, not the power supply.
That and she put the phone close to the computer, oh yeah, hard drive.

~d

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[docmeyer]

Major embaressment, it was the slave drive!!!

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[wahnula]

Doh'