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Hard drive replacment
Name: Nogmor Date: November 7, 2006 at 02:07:59 Pacific OS: WinXP CPU/Ram: P4 1.8mhz
Comment:
I have an 80GB hard drive and I just baught a 160Gb hd, and I wish to "switch" the hard drives.
I basically want to use the 160 gb instead of the 80 gb one, ho do I "move" everything from my 80gb HD to my 160 gb ?
Name: jam Date: November 7, 2006 at 04:57:16 Pacific
Reply:
You should have gotten a CD along with your new HDD. On it is a program that will allow you to clone the contents of the old drive to the new. What you'll need to do is temporarily connect the 160GB HDD as a slave & use the software to copy everything over, then pull the 80GB HDD & replace it with the 160GB. Boot up & make sure everything is working properly before formatting the 80GB drive.
If you didn't get a CD, go to the drive manufacturer's website, download the software & create one.
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Response Number 3
Name: OtheHill Date: November 7, 2006 at 05:55:13 Pacific
Reply:
If you are simply going to place the 80GB on the shelf I would suggest that you keep it installed. 240GBs are better that 160GBs. If you elect to do that you can still clone averything to the new drive and use the old 80 for archiving files. Depending on the specs of the drives there may not be any advantage to moving everything to the new, in which case you can just ADD the 160.
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Response Number 4
Name: Nogmor Date: November 7, 2006 at 08:06:28 Pacific
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Well, they are good ideas, but I would like to knwo if there was a program that could help,
My new HD didn't come with such software as "jam" suggested, so I would like to know what kidn ther are out there. Somoene mentioned norton ghost, but I think it's too complicated for me to use.
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Response Number 5
Name: rhawk7938 Date: November 7, 2006 at 08:16:20 Pacific
Reply:
If you didn't get a CD, do like Jam said, go to the mfr. website and download it. That will be the easiest way.
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Response Number 6
Name: jam Date: November 7, 2006 at 11:06:22 Pacific
Reply:
If you'd mention what brand HDD you bought, someone could point you to the software download
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Response Number 7
Name: OtheHill Date: November 7, 2006 at 13:37:17 Pacific
Reply:
I agree with the above posts but as I stated, it isn't necessary to remove or clone anything. If you still want to, download the software for the brand drive you bought and follow the instructions EXACTLY.
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Response Number 8
Name: joejoe Date: November 7, 2006 at 17:25:23 Pacific
Reply:
you can actually install both HD to your PC. just the new one as master and the old one as slave. you dont have to transfer everything to the new HD, but if you want to, you can just copy all the files to the new one directly.
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