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I`ve got 2 hard disks in my PC - the master is a 40GB (7200rpm) and the slave is 60GB (5400rpm). I`ve bought a new slave drive (120GB) and want to replace the 60GB slave with it. The slave is more or less full and obviously the master doesn`t have enough room to temporarily copy the data to it while I swap them over.

Any ideas on the best way of changing the disks??

Ste

Most PC`s can take up to 4 ide drives. You should have a second IDE interface on your mother board.

You will need a second IDE cable - should be able to borrow one from somebody. Configure your new drive as a master and connect to the second IDE channel. You may need to configure the bios to see this, but this is easy.

Presumably you know how to create partitions and format (Fdisk etc)

Then you can copy your files from the old slave and then replace it if you want - but why not keep all three drives in your PC.

It is possible if you have a CD and DVD drive that the second ide interface is already used. If so, you can tempoarily disconnect one of these.

Can`t believe I didn`t think of using the other channel. Doh!
Other channel is used with CD/DVD but will just disconnect one.
I`ll use the disk management in XP to format.

Cheers.

Ste