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Originally Posted by Thalin
My sister and I have agreed to swap hard drives, because she has a 144gb one and uses about 40gb, and i have an 80gb one and only have a few gb's remaining! Trouble is, i'm not a hard drive buff, and need help. This is how I was planning to carry this out, but I don't know if it will work.
1) Move all my docs onto my sisters PC via network - DONE
2) Reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows
3) Move all my stuff and sisters stuff onto my hard drive from her PC via network
4) Reformat my sisters hard drive and reinstall Windows
5) Swap hard drives
6) Get all my stuff back from my sisters computer (who now has my old hard drive)
I thought this would work, but then my friend said something about not being able to swap hard drives because of problems with drivers, and me needing to do a load of things in safe mode etc.
Can anyone here help me with this?
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Internal hard drives should never need drivers. What your friend was refering to is if you just swap both hard drives as is, Windows will see all these new pieces of hardware, freak out and basically go into the fetal postion and die (this is mainly because the motherboard drivers are installed at the installation of the OS and it can't really handle a change of that magnitude very well). Just reinstall Windows after transfering the hard drives to their new PCs and everything should work just fine.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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