Topic: new hard drive

[daveyball]

Hi there I have just put in a new samsung 80gb drive...no probs...but it seems really slowand i am getting screen freeze, how do i partition the harddrive to give the op more space and is there anything else i need to do to be up and running with the new hard drive

[Sandra]

Have you added this as a second slave drive or is it the master with your OS on it Dave  

[daveyball]

hi sandra no this new hard drive that i have put in is the master and i have taken the other one out. it was only a 20 gig thanks

[Sandra]

Ok you need something like Partition Magic to resize and create partitions once you have the OS on the drive.
Which OS are you using ?
You could have done it with XP as you installed it as it gives you the option to install to a partition and recreate it at whichever size you would like.
Then once you are up and running the Disk Management part of XP allows you to format and allocate the rest of the space on the drive.
Unless you have another use for your 20 gig drive then I would have been tempted to use that as the master and install your OS on that and add the 80 gig as a slave to it  

[daveyball]

this is great help thanks sandra

im running xp where abouts ids the option to run disk managment  where is the format part
sorry if im a bother dave

[Sandra]

Go to Start/Admin tols/Computer management/Disk management
Thats only any good to you if you had created a partition smaller than the full drive size when installing XP as you would have had some unallocated space which you would have to use the disk manager to create a partition and allocate it  
If you want to partition your 80 gig drive which already has your XP os on it then you will need to run a program such as partition Magic to resize or create the partitions how you want them.
I cant think why your pc should be running slower with the 80 gig drive in than the 20 gig one unless you have something set to check the drive as its booting up  
If you havent got too much on your new drive that you need to keep then I would just reinstall XP on your 20 gig drive as a master and set your 80 gig drive as a slave to it.
Dont forget to set the jumpers of each drive correctly for master and slave