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Hey
I am just building a new computer, but i'm worried about moving my harddrives over (i dont want to lose the stuff on my secondary drive).

The secondary drive is a 250GB western digital

So after I install windows on the primary, I assume I would install the cd that came with the drive (data lifegaurd tools) and then install the secondary drive, so that windows can recognize it and work happily without losing anything? :)

This new computer consists of an EVGA nforce4 motherboard. Do newer motherboards like this still have the 137GB limit or has that been fixed with newer BIOSes?

Thanks for any input/help!!!!

Michael

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The newer motherboards shouldn't limit you to the old 137MB, even so, if the new hdd is blank you could just make 2 or 3 partitions, if it's your old hdd, there is software out there that will allow you to repartition it if this is needed, like Digital Dolly. Your motherboard manual should tell you what the capacity is.

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