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  1. doubledave22 doubledave22 is offline

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    May 15th, 2011 (5/15/2011 9:33pm)

    My desktop keeps freezing randomly and a few weeks ago it spazzed out and sounded like a helicopter crashing whenever i turned it on. After powering down, taking it to best buy to get repaired but deciding to do it myself the comp returns back to normal with no work done. Just now again I am seeing some problems but a month back i got prepared and bought an external drive to back up my stuff and a new internal hard drive which i havent done anything with yet.

    My question is how would you go about installing the new hard drive? I have win 7 disks and everything I am just wondering if i should just take out the old one, put in the new 1 and install windows/restore from external. Or is there some other way where i plug both in at once and set the original to slave/new one to master? Also if i unplug the old drive which still sorta works and i fail miserably with the new one, can i replug the old one and have everything return to how it is now?

    My real main question is if i take out the current HD but decide to go back to it, can i with no problems?
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  2. kdunlapmo kdunlapmo is offline

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    May 15th, 2011 (5/15/2011 9:52pm) in reply to doubledave22

    Since it's most likely an SATA drive (the original and the new) what I do is plug the new drive into the old SATA cable. The new Hard drive probably came with another SATA cable. Plug that cable into the old one. The other end plugs into the mother board. If you look at the existing SATA cable and where it's plugged into on the mother board the 2nd SATA cable should plug in right next to the existing one. THen when you boot up just install the OS onto the new hard drive (which will be primary). After everything is installed the secondary drive (the old) will appear as like D: in Windows explorer or maybe even E: (assuming you have a cd/dvd drive). You can then access your old data.
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