TSGL: what to do with a FOUR GIG drive?

[jonpan]

Burn an image of the 4Gig drive to a DVD. Reformat the 80Gig (backup 
anything you need).
Connect the 80Gig as master, the 4Gig as slave and boot to the DVD (BIOS 
setting). Restore the image to the 80Gig. Check out the results. If all is 
OK you can reformat the 4Gig.

John
Od/G


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Neuenschwander" <annandchuck at yahoo.com>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 6:56 AM
Subject: TSGL: what to do with a FOUR GIG drive?


I have a weird situation. I got a used HP desktop. The 80-gig harddrive was 
not booting.
  A techie friend suggested he would get me going with a new (used) 
harddrive.
  He came over and put it in, loaded XP and Office, as licensed,
  and a few utilities and then we checked Properties on the drive and I was
  astonished to see it was about 80% full !  He said "Yep, that's a four gig 
drive"

  So, after all that I have a computer that can't be used to store much of 
anything
  or install more programs on.

  So, I took off the jumpers from the 80-gig and put it in as a slave. 
Formatted it, and wrote it full of files to test it out. It appears fine.

  Now, my questions. Should I keep that configuration, or should I instead 
toss the 4gigger and get an OS and Office put onto the 80?

   If I should switch, how do I go about it? I don't have a CD for windows 
or office. I suppose I could use Open Office instead of Office. Is there a 
reliable inexpensive alternative to win-XP? I assume, once booted now, there 
is no way to transfer the  XP OS onto the 80gig.

  Could/should I put an OS on the 80 now, with it as slave, and then remove 
the 4gig, set the jumpers on the 80 back to Master, and hook it up?
  I kinda know what I'm doing, but haven't been through this before and need 
a plan.
  Thanks, Chuck


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