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there is a very simple procedure for this.
1) remove old drive, set it aside carefully.
2) install new drive, ensuring that it is set to primary master drive (or in the case of western digital drives, "single drive").
3) install OS, programs, etc on new drive.
4) add old drive back into system, ensuring it's a slave device (it would be preferrable to add this drive to a secondary channel, instead of being on the same cable as the primary drive). boot up the new system and copy your necessary files over. do not copy over your windows system files from the old drive however, you're better off keeping the newer files from the fresh install.
you're done.
don't rely on 'cable select' - depending on the hardware it may not even work, and at best it can be relatively unreliable. it's the lazy person's way of making things work. always set your drives to master or slave.
if it is a western digital drive, pay close attention to settings for "single drive". if it is the only drive on the channel, and you set it to master or slave, the drive will not be found by the system - only if it is set to 'single drive'.
MOST modern drives have the full jumper settings on the case of the drive.
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