victorious!

Our "new" computer, which is three years old, has a 160-gig hard drive.

Me and Alaska, we have filled it up. I am making digital scrapbook pages, and those photoshop files are biiiiiiiig.......

Yesterday I bought a new drive, and today I installed it as an additional drive. I had advice from some pc mavens about which connections to get (SATA). I opened up the computer, and installed the drive, but when I rebooted, the computer didn't find it. Sigh. I went to seagate.com, and looked up support/drives/SATA, and saw that I had to talk to the BIOS.

Okayfine.

I had to restart twice to get there, because I didn't know which key to push the first time (f2!).

The BIOS menu offered me a "drives" option. Luckily I'd been paying attention to which SATA plug I plugged the new drive into (#1, as the hard drive that came with the machine was plugged into #0), because I had to turn it on in the BIOS menu.... So I did that, and saved when offered that choice on my way out of the BIOS menu.

Still not all the way there -- then I ran the disk wizard program that came with the drive, and set the drive up, and now it's apparently working like a champ.

Yay.

It turns out that my subdirectory has about 57 gigs worth of (mostly pics). Deleting that off the C drive will free up some much-needed space.

A Good Thing.

Dontcha love when you can buy yourself more than three times the storage you already had for $100, and it doesn't take up any more space than you already had (as the new drive fit into empty space inside the computer)????

Yet another thing I love about digital. My thousands (and thousands) of pics don't take up any physical space at all, to speak of........