how to make a new harddrive a bootup drive?
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you're not clear which OS you are using.first of all you need OS installed in new hardisk. Assuming you're running windows, use win98 startup disk to adjust the primary partition of new harddrive to active partition. it can be complicated venture if you haven't done it before. \n\n\ncheck link below and mainly check partitioning section
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open the case...you will have to figure that out on your own. most likely removing screws on the back. look for the old hard drive. NOW before you touch ANYTHING, touch a bare metal spot on your case to remove any static electricity you may be carrying. there will be a wide flat grey ribbon cable on the back of the hard drive. carefully remove it from the hard drive only. there will also be a smaller white plug with 4 wires unplug that too. Most hard driver are held in by 4 screws. remove them and slide out the old drive. slide in the new drive, the 4 screws, and the 4 wire cable and flat ribbon cable. the connectors are keyed and only go in one way. that was the easy part. now you need to install the operating system. boot the computer up and pop in your o/s disc, then reboot. you will want to boot from the cd, with cd support. when you see the A:/ prompt. type in "fdisk" with out the quotation marks and hit enter. follow the prompts with yes to everything until you get to the menu screen. here you need to create a primary dos partition using all available hard drive space. when it done, reboot by pushing and holding down on the power button until it shuts down. start it up again and boot from the cd with cd support. this time you can start installing windows(98 or ME). when asked if you want to format, yes you do. when thats done, the o/s should start to install(we having fun yet?).....good luck
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just remove the hard drive and stick it into the new one.
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will it boot into safemode (f8 on boot)? if so do a system restore ... if not ur sol i think ...there wont be any other backup unless you made one ... if you know what files then pull ur drive and stick it in the machine ur using now and copy the files you need to the system folders ...
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Get the startup disk again!
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I don't know if this will apply exactly to your setup, but on a Windows machine (98, NT, 2000, I haven't verified that this carried over to XP)...\n\n1) Create the folder that you want to turn into a "drive" -- for this example let's call it "c:&#92;drive_z"\n\n2) Start Menu -> Run\n\nType...\n\ncmd <enter>\n\n3) Type the following line...\n\nsubst z: c:&#92;drive_z <enter>\n\nYou now have a drive letter Z whose root directory is the contents of c:&#92;drive_z \n\nIt will remain until you reboot your machine, or until you type\n\nsubst z: /d <enter>
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make sure your jumper settings on the drive are set correctly\n\ngo into your bios setup at boot up time and make sure that the HD is showing \nto get into bios you hit the key that it says to hit in order to get into setup, tap it once a second or hair faster than that til it goes into setup\n\nusually its F1 that gets you into Bios\n\nbut on some bios versions it is the tab key\n\nif those two are good then go to control panel and device manager and make sure the Hd shows up in the list of hardware and that theres no exclamation mark or anything like that next to it\n\nif so then theres a problem, also if it doesnt show up in the hardware list at all\n\nchecking jumper setting is the first thing to check though, \n\n\nif it was my system i would put the new HD on the primary IDE cable and set the jumper to slave setting\n\nand go into Bios setup and set it to boot first if it has your OS on it and if not then make it second or third or fourth boot \n'
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boot with the cd and re install
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Have you got any data on the drive you want to keep ?\n\nIf not just make a boot disk ( www.bootdisk.com ) and use fdisk to partition the drive and then install windows.\n\nIf you do have data then I suggest you connect the hard drive to another machine as a slave and back it up and then put it back into the machine and format it and re install windows.\n\nThere are other ways of backing up the data, please post back and let me know if you need further help.
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put in a floppy, right click on A: drive, select format, select "Create a Windows Startup Disk" or whatever it says.  I don't have any floppies so I can't check, but it's very similar.
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If your BIOS supports it will work. Go to BIOS (when starting up press F2) Go to start up or booting, put whatever you want it to boot to first. Just one thing to be aware of. This will not be as fast as a normal hard drive.
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This will depend on  what you want to do?\nIf you  are installing a new hard drive then  first of all you need to check to see if it set as a master , then you need to partition and format the drive. The easiest way to do this is to  go to www.madboot.com and download  the boot disk then use it  it will allow you to  fdisk, partition format and install  and  lots more\n If you are using xp  as an OS then set your pc to boot from the cd-drive and  install from the disk
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Try to use Norton Ghost which will be more helpful to reformat the system to its initial positon. \n\nOnce u installed all necessary s/w try to take a copy of a partition. Norton Ghost will do it for u. it will save as a Image file.\nOnce u do that it will be used as a source for recreating the partition. \n\nWhen there is any system crash use boot disk to enter OS. then run ghost to overwrite the partition. Now u can see that the system is ready with all necessary s/w within 15 - 25 minutes.
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is the drive useable?if so open the case of the pc you are using unplug it first!!!then touch the metal frame to discharge any static then take the old hd and connect it to the new pc make sure to set the jumper to cs or slave this should be on the hd case then just run pc as usual the new (old)hd should now be available to work with,also you can now re formatt it ti use for storage etc.
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boot from your CD then using  a Promt run the fdisk program . del the partions  then remake then reboot now load
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from the command prompt\n\nconvert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs\n\ne.g.:  convert c: /fs:ntfs
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I have used Partition Magic with great success.  Keep your 20Gb drive as primary master, and install your new 250Gb drive as a slave or on the secondary IDE channel.  Keep in mind, whatever software you use will not be doing merely a copy, but will also write to the Boot Master Record on the 250 Gb drive to designate it as a bootable drive.  Once your software finishes, shut down, and swap the two drives.  Surprising that the Seagate s/w failed to help you.