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    Changing Hard drives

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by Jack772, Jul 12, 2007.

  1. Jack772

    Jack772 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi, My C drive has two bad spots and I would like to replace it with my F drive which is larger.
    How do I replace the main drive without losing everything?

    Thanks,

    Jack
     
    Jack772, Jul 12, 2007
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  2. allan_huang

    allan_huang Notebook Deity

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    I believe that is not possible, and also you probably only have one physical drive with multiple partitions.
     
    allan_huang, Jul 12, 2007
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  3. Kdawgca

    Kdawgca rotaredoM repudrepuS RBN

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    If your talking about the Tosh A135 S4467 then yes you only have one physical hard drive with multiple partitions as allan mentioned.

    If you want to replace your hdd then first back your hard drive up with Acronis or Norton Ghost.
     
    Kdawgca, Jul 12, 2007
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  4. boruta

    boruta Notebook Guru

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    Before you will invest some $ tray to do low level format. That should fix your problem with bad sectors. It will erase all data from entire hdd. You can use Maxtor’s PowerMax. It works with most of hdds.
     
    boruta, Jul 12, 2007
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