make 2nd drive the boot drive

[Rusty]

I just installed a new IDE drive on my Dell Dimension,
Windows XP Home. I wnat to change the older drive(which
is the boot drive and has the system files to the 2nd
drive) How do I make my new drive, the boot drive (C:)
and the the old drive the 2nd drive.

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Go out and purcahse Noron's Ghost 2003 and that will
help you

alvin


Rusty wrote:

> I just installed a new IDE drive on my Dell Dimension,
> Windows XP Home. I wnat to change the older drive(which
> is the boot drive and has the system files to the 2nd
> drive) How do I make my new drive, the boot drive (C:)
> and the the old drive the 2nd drive.

[Chris Lanier]

First you need to copy all the data over from one drive to the other. Most
hard drive's comes with a floppy to do this for you. Then you need to
change the drives from a master 2 slave and from a slave 2 a master. All
hard drive come with documnetion telling you all of this.

"Rusty" > wrote in message
...
> I just installed a new IDE drive on my Dell Dimension,
> Windows XP Home. I wnat to change the older drive(which
> is the boot drive and has the system files to the 2nd
> drive) How do I make my new drive, the boot drive (C:)
> and the the old drive the 2nd drive.