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starry8t2 Posts: 1 Joined: 11/18/2006 Status: offline	Make Primary Hard Drive - 11/18/2006 7:45:21 I recently installed a new hard drive. I set it as slave but what I really want to do is have it as the master drive. The old drive is 40GB and full. The new drive is 80b installed and running fine. My question is if I make it master will windows still find all my existing files ok? and if not what do I have to do to make it work? Many Thanks Starry


steveg Posts: 278 Joined: 10/20/2004 Status: offline	RE: Make Primary Hard Drive - 11/27/2006 12:36:08 I recently upgraded a machine from a 40gb hdd to a 200gb hdd. I bought Paragon Drive Copy (cheapest version) and copied the 40gb setup to the 200gb hdd on the fly, replaced the 40gb with the 200gb and started up. Worked like a dream! The replacement drive is usually newer and quicker so makes sense to have it as the main drive. Definitely worth a look. Steve (in reply to starry8t2)


Davejb Posts: 19 Joined: 3/21/2003 Status: offline	RE: Make Primary Hard Drive - 11/28/2006 16:09:17 Making the drive master as opposed to slave (as far as jumper configuration) will have no significant affect on it's performance. Generally when changing a drive to master, this implies that you want the OS and all data on the original drive moved to the new drive. In order to do this you need a 3rd party imaging program to take care of the move such as Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image, just reconfiguring the drive from slave to master will accomplish nothing, other than possibly rendering your computer non-bootable. (in reply to starry8t2)