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new hard drive installation
I am replacing a Maxtor 6E030L0 that Maxtors diagnostics tells me that it is
failing. I will replace it with a Seagate Barracuda ST389911A. My computer is a Dell Dimension 2350 running XP Home. I intend to do a clean install of windows on the new drive. My question is am I better off using Seagate's Disk Wizard or my Windows reinstallation CD to partition and format the new drive. Thanks, Roy |
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new hard drive installation
Before you even start installing - what size is the drive and what version
of XP is on the CD? If the drive is larger than 137Gb then the XP CD must be SP1 or SP2. "Roy Colson" wrote in message ... I am replacing a Maxtor 6E030L0 that Maxtors diagnostics tells me that it is failing. I will replace it with a Seagate Barracuda ST389911A. My computer is a Dell Dimension 2350 running XP Home. I intend to do a clean install of windows on the new drive. My question is am I better off using Seagate's Disk Wizard or my Windows reinstallation CD to partition and format the new drive. Thanks, Roy |
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new hard drive installation
The drive is 80 GB. I have both an original SP1 and a slipped streamed SP2.
"Jerry" wrote in message ... Before you even start installing - what size is the drive and what version of XP is on the CD? If the drive is larger than 137Gb then the XP CD must be SP1 or SP2. "Roy Colson" wrote in message ... I am replacing a Maxtor 6E030L0 that Maxtors diagnostics tells me that it is failing. I will replace it with a Seagate Barracuda ST389911A. My computer is a Dell Dimension 2350 running XP Home. I intend to do a clean install of windows on the new drive. My question is am I better off using Seagate's Disk Wizard or my Windows reinstallation CD to partition and format the new drive. Thanks, Roy |
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I made a typo in the Seagate part number. It should read ST380011A.
"Roy Colson" wrote in message ... The drive is 80 GB. I have both an original SP1 and a slipped streamed SP2. "Jerry" wrote in message ... Before you even start installing - what size is the drive and what version of XP is on the CD? If the drive is larger than 137Gb then the XP CD must be SP1 or SP2. "Roy Colson" wrote in message ... I am replacing a Maxtor 6E030L0 that Maxtors diagnostics tells me that it is failing. I will replace it with a Seagate Barracuda ST389911A. My computer is a Dell Dimension 2350 running XP Home. I intend to do a clean install of windows on the new drive. My question is am I better off using Seagate's Disk Wizard or my Windows reinstallation CD to partition and format the new drive. Thanks, Roy |
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I have heard that xp install format uses a inefficient file cluster size if
using NTFS but I wouldn't really know the difference, I would use the xp install cd for formatting and install simply due to only using one cd, and I'm familiar with it. "Roy Colson" wrote: I made a typo in the Seagate part number. It should read ST380011A. "Roy Colson" wrote in message ... The drive is 80 GB. I have both an original SP1 and a slipped streamed SP2. "Jerry" wrote in message ... Before you even start installing - what size is the drive and what version of XP is on the CD? If the drive is larger than 137Gb then the XP CD must be SP1 or SP2. "Roy Colson" wrote in message ... I am replacing a Maxtor 6E030L0 that Maxtors diagnostics tells me that it is failing. I will replace it with a Seagate Barracuda ST389911A. My computer is a Dell Dimension 2350 running XP Home. I intend to do a clean install of windows on the new drive. My question is am I better off using Seagate's Disk Wizard or my Windows reinstallation CD to partition and format the new drive. Thanks, Roy |
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Use the win cd to partition and format
"Roy Colson" wrote in message ... I made a typo in the Seagate part number. It should read ST380011A. "Roy Colson" wrote in message ... The drive is 80 GB. I have both an original SP1 and a slipped streamed SP2. "Jerry" wrote in message ... Before you even start installing - what size is the drive and what version of XP is on the CD? If the drive is larger than 137Gb then the XP CD must be SP1 or SP2. "Roy Colson" wrote in message ... I am replacing a Maxtor 6E030L0 that Maxtors diagnostics tells me that it is failing. I will replace it with a Seagate Barracuda ST389911A. My computer is a Dell Dimension 2350 running XP Home. I intend to do a clean install of windows on the new drive. My question is am I better off using Seagate's Disk Wizard or my Windows reinstallation CD to partition and format the new drive. Thanks, Roy |
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Boot from the SP2 CD and use the included tools to format and install.
"Roy Colson" wrote in message ... I made a typo in the Seagate part number. It should read ST380011A. "Roy Colson" wrote in message ... The drive is 80 GB. I have both an original SP1 and a slipped streamed SP2. "Jerry" wrote in message ... Before you even start installing - what size is the drive and what version of XP is on the CD? If the drive is larger than 137Gb then the XP CD must be SP1 or SP2. "Roy Colson" wrote in message ... I am replacing a Maxtor 6E030L0 that Maxtors diagnostics tells me that it is failing. I will replace it with a Seagate Barracuda ST389911A. My computer is a Dell Dimension 2350 running XP Home. I intend to do a clean install of windows on the new drive. My question is am I better off using Seagate's Disk Wizard or my Windows reinstallation CD to partition and format the new drive. Thanks, Roy |
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