Replacing primary hard drive

[enwar3]

So, i had hard disk failure a month or so back, and i figured I'd back some stuff up with knoppix and then rma the hard drive. The C drive (boot disk) was the one that failed, and if i rma it, will my current D drive be compatible with the new C disk?

 

[belazeru]

Please clairfy. Was your D drive a partition of the hard drive you are RMAing? OR is you D drive an optical drive (CDROM, DVD, ect). Either way it should be compatiable just install the same OS you used before.

 

[enwar3]

Sorry, I'll clarify. I have two optical drives, one of which is the C drive and the one I boot off of, and the other is the D drive. The C drive is the one that's corrupted, so I plan to rma it and replace it. But I'm wondering if the D drive will work with the new C drive, or if I'll have to reformat the D drive too.

I'm wondering because I plan on backing up some stuff onto the D drive before I rma the C drive, but if the D drive won't work with the new drive, there's no point.

 

[Jiggz]

Optical drives are either CD Rom, DVD-Rom or CDR-Rom. Neither of these drives can be an OS drive (meaning Win XP is installed). If you mean hdd then you meant to say you have two physical hdd's and it's designated C and D drives. If the problem is only corrupted data, it does not necessarily mean you have a bad hdd or C drive. It could have just been virus or malwares causing the corruption or maybe even power surge. Go ahead and back up data from C to D drive and then reformat the C drive. Re-install Win XP and see if the hdd is still good. If it won't format, then it could be that the C drive has gone bad. But if this is the case, then you shouldn't be able to back up from C to D drive in the first place!

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: enwar3
So, i had hard disk failure a month or so back, and i figured I'd back some stuff up with knoppix and then rma the hard drive. The C drive (boot disk) was the one that failed, and if i rma it, will my current D drive be compatible with the new C disk?

Your D drive will be fully intact. Nothing you do the the C drive affects the data on the D drive.