installing hard drive to be the primary

Hello, sorry if my lingo is off, but I'll be installing an additional hard
drive onto my system this week. My specs are below.

What I'd like to do is keep my present drives and install the new one this week
to be the primary one off which the PC actually boots from. (dual booting with
more than one OS will be an issue I'll deal with later on). I simply want to
take advantage of the extra caching and power this new hard drive will give me.

These days, is it very simple to just hook up the new hard drive and control
everything from within Windows? (just as I was able to set the partitions and
formatting?) Or will it entail lots of fudging around with the insides of my
'PC? As it used to be in 'olden days? (you know, setting which one will be the
primary, primary slave, Secondary and secondary slave???)

My specs: Pentium IV, Using XP with 2 hard drives already installed as two
separate partitions. Over 750mb of Ram, my two present drives are: 6 gigs and
20 gigs.
The new hard drive I'm expecting will be a: Maxtor 80GB EIDE HD
7200/8MB/9.3/ATA-133

DiLu790

The easiest way to do it is to get a version of ghost (symantec) and just
ghost the original boot drive onto the new drive. It is simple to run and
works slick.


"DiLu790" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello, sorry if my lingo is off, but I'll be installing an additional hard
> drive onto my system this week. My specs are below.
>
> What I'd like to do is keep my present drives and install the new one this
week
> to be the primary one off which the PC actually boots from. (dual booting
with
> more than one OS will be an issue I'll deal with later on). I simply want
to
> take advantage of the extra caching and power this new hard drive will
give me.
>
> These days, is it very simple to just hook up the new hard drive and
control
> everything from within Windows? (just as I was able to set the partitions
and
> formatting?) Or will it entail lots of fudging around with the insides of
my
> 'PC? As it used to be in 'olden days? (you know, setting which one will be
the
> primary, primary slave, Secondary and secondary slave???)
>
> My specs: Pentium IV, Using XP with 2 hard drives already installed as two
> separate partitions. Over 750mb of Ram, my two present drives are: 6 gigs
and
> 20 gigs.
> The new hard drive I'm expecting will be a: Maxtor 80GB EIDE HD
> 7200/8MB/9.3/ATA-133

"???" <> wrote in message
news:...
> The easiest way to do it is to get a version of ghost (symantec) and just
> ghost the original boot drive onto the new drive. It is simple to run and
> works slick.

Based on my own experience the ghost image program should be fine. But with
a dual boot setup, you'd want the other OS to be installed before XP(if you
have another one in mind like Win 9.
>
>
> "DiLu790" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > Hello, sorry if my lingo is off, but I'll be installing an additional
hard
> > drive onto my system this week. My specs are below.
> >
> > What I'd like to do is keep my present drives and install the new one
this
> week
> > to be the primary one off which the PC actually boots from. (dual
booting
> with
> > more than one OS will be an issue I'll deal with later on). I simply
want
> to
> > take advantage of the extra caching and power this new hard drive will
> give me.
> >
> > These days, is it very simple to just hook up the new hard drive and
> control
> > everything from within Windows? (just as I was able to set the
partitions
> and
> > formatting?) Or will it entail lots of fudging around with the insides
of
> my
> > 'PC? As it used to be in 'olden days? (you know, setting which one will
be
> the
> > primary, primary slave, Secondary and secondary slave???)
> >
> > My specs: Pentium IV, Using XP with 2 hard drives already installed as
two
> > separate partitions. Over 750mb of Ram, my two present drives are: 6
gigs
> and
> > 20 gigs.
> > The new hard drive I'm expecting will be a: Maxtor 80GB EIDE HD
> > 7200/8MB/9.3/ATA-133
>
>

>Based on my own experience the ghost image program should be fine. But with
>a dual boot setup, you'd want the other OS to be installed before XP(if you
>have another one in mind like Win 9.

Thanks folks. and yes, I've seen all the technotes about the dual boot and the
order in which the OS's should be installed, but, according to the following
links, it is possible to do it if your second drive is FAT32, which mine is,
and if you fix the XP Boot thereafter. I think I'll be trying it once I get my
DVD RW so's to back everything up before taking the plunge. (I only need the 95
and 98 OS for testing some products of mine)

http://www.petri.co.il/install_win98_after_xp.htm

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_repair_9x.htm

Again, thanks