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That Hard Drive keeps getting smaller and slower. Sooner or later your going to have to do it or pay to have it done. Replacing the Hard Drive with Win31 or Dos 6.2 and earlier was a simple task. With Win95 it's a bit of a different story. But, with just a little confidence ( The feeling you have when you don't fully understand the situation ) and a few basic steps the job can be short and well worth the effort.
The first thing you should do if, you haven't already, is make a Startup Disk. To do this start Win95. Go to My Computer. Then Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs. Hit the Startup Disk Tab. Push the Create Disk Radio Button. After you have successfully created a Startup Disk, power down.
Restart the computer with the newly created Startup Disk in the A: Drive. The computer should startup from the A: drive, if it doesn't make a new Strartup Disk.
Now that the Computer is bootable from the a: Drive power back down and hook up the new Hard Drive as a slave. After both Hard Drives are jumpered according to the documentation restart the computer.
At power up, enter into the BIOS Setup or CMOS. To do this follow computer handbook documentation. For most computers, simply hold in the Delete key down continuously during power up is all that is needed.
After you have entered the BIOS Setup, highlight the DETECT IDE HARD DRIVE heading and hit Enter. If the Hard Drives are jumpered properly the BIOS should identify and enter their parameters. Now save and exit.
At this point start the computer from the A: drive using the Startup Disk.
Type C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\FDISK. Change the partitioning program FDISK coordinates to the new Hard Drive. Create a Partition on the new Hard Drive remove the floppy from the A: drive and restart the computer.
Start the MS-DOS program and type: C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\FORMAT D:/S if D: is the new drive.
After the new hard drive is formated type: C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\XCOPY C:\/E/H/K/R/C D: This will make a mirror of all the data from the old hard drive to the new hard drive.
Finally remove the old hard drive and jumper the new one as the only one in the system, change the CMOS to correspond. Restart the computer from the A: drive, enter the F disk program and make the partition active. Remove the floppy and restart Windows95 from your new hard drive.
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