msc). (If it doesn??™t, see
Chapter 6.) As soon as Windows finishes installing the necessary drivers,
open Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc), right-click the new drive in the
lower pane, and select New Simple Volume, as shown in Figure 5-14.
On the first page of the New Simple Volume Wizard, click Next, and then
specify the size of the new partition.
You??™ll need to make two partitions on the new drive: the primary partition
to become your new boot drive, and a secondary partition to temporarily
hold the backup of your existing data. The second partition needs to be no
larger than the capacity of your old hard disk, so set the primary partition to
the total size of the new drive minus the total size of the old drive. For
instance, if you??™re replacing a 60 GB hard disk with a 500 GB hard disk, set
the first partition to 440 GB, and use the remaining 60 GB for the second.
So, at the prompt, type a value, in megabytes, for the size of the primary
partition (i.e., 440000 for 440 GB) and then click Next. Follow the prompts
to complete the wizard; make sure to format the drive with the NTFS filesystem,
but don??™t assign a drive letter at this time.
Figure 5-13. Use a handy external USB adapter like this one to hook up your new drive
to your PC
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Now, create the second partition in the remaining unused space, and have it
consume the rest of the drive. Again, format it as NTFS, but this time, assign
a drive letter (your choice).
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