i just installed a new hard drive and i want to install windows onto it before i remove the old drive as i have tons of stuff i want to transfer before i reformat it.
old drive = 6.4gb 2.0 primary + 4.4 logical
new drive = 46.1gb 3.6gb primary + 5 x 8.5gb logical
old drive was master at C:\ & D:\ & is now slave C:\ & E:\ as u would guess and of course new drive is master at D:\ & F:\ thru J:\ when i run winME setup it seems to be trying to install to the C:\ drive (i dont want that) so i exited it. i played around with the bios setup but didnt like the results so i stopped. what i want to do is install a fresh winME on the primary partition of the new drive then transfer what i want from old drive to new then reformat old drive w/o partitions then have winME boot off new drive at C:\ n have old drive letter moved to after the last partition of new drive. then in the future install a second OS on a seperate partition for family & guests to use (too many nephews like poking around where they dont belong & i hate to say no to them)
any help would be apreciated
old drive = 6.4gb 2.0 primary + 4.4 logical
new drive = 46.1gb 3.6gb primary + 5 x 8.5gb logical
old drive was master at C:\ & D:\ & is now slave C:\ & E:\ as u would guess and of course new drive is master at D:\ & F:\ thru J:\ when i run winME setup it seems to be trying to install to the C:\ drive (i dont want that) so i exited it. i played around with the bios setup but didnt like the results so i stopped. what i want to do is install a fresh winME on the primary partition of the new drive then transfer what i want from old drive to new then reformat old drive w/o partitions then have winME boot off new drive at C:\ n have old drive letter moved to after the last partition of new drive. then in the future install a second OS on a seperate partition for family & guests to use (too many nephews like poking around where they dont belong & i hate to say no to them)
any help would be apreciated