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Bassmaster, the 40 gig HD is a good idea.
The new hard drive will be your primary and your old will be your slave. You need to change a jumper connector on the back of the hard drives to signify which is a hard drive and which is a slave.
The grey data cable that goes to your current hard drive may have an additional connector that you attach to the new hard drive along with the power connector.
Once you fdisk, format and load the operating system then move your stuff from the old to the new. Once yuor satisfied that you got all your stuff on the new then delete the old data on your old drive.
Now you can use your old drive for data only and you can transfer the data that you transferd to the old back to the new. So if ever you want to backup your data you only have to copy from only one entire drive.
Don't forget to clean the inside of PC of built up dust and while your at it you can remove the pc cards to clean the gold connections with an eraser. If there is a dirty contact the voltage level of the signal may be lowered to the point were it is at the treshold of being undistinguished between a 1 or a 0.
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