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Title: Hard drive question
Post by: AdmRose on June 21, 2005, 10:49:15 PM

I'm getting a new 250GB HD and want to transfer everything on my current 80GB HD (4 partitions X 20GB each) to it. Easiest way to go about doing this?

Title: Hard drive question
Post by: OOZ662 on June 22, 2005, 02:02:21 AM

Connect them by network and use a free home network file transfer program. I've never used one; someone else will have to reccomend one.

Title: Hard drive question
Post by: Eagler on June 22, 2005, 05:57:59 AM

Norton Ghost

Title: Hard drive question
Post by: Ghosth on June 22, 2005, 07:34:31 AM

Download the HD utilities for the drive your buying. IE Western Digital, etc.

Put both drives in the computer, boot with the Utilities disk, one of your options should be a drive "transfer"

Should be considerably faster than moving all that data over a Lan.

I've done it twice, worked a charm both times.

Title: Hard drive question
Post by: AdmRose on June 22, 2005, 11:37:30 AM

Where would I download these utilities?

Title: Hard drive question
Post by: Roscoroo on June 22, 2005, 12:43:20 PM

i do it either with the maxtor program or i format, partition, install os and drivers .
then put the old hard drive back in and copy from that .. (Warning it takes all day for 60 gb's of data ) start it and go to work,bed ect ...

Title: Hard drive question
Post by: AdmRose on June 22, 2005, 07:05:18 PM

Might work but will it matter that my current HD is partitioned into 4 seperate drives?

Title: Hard drive question
Post by: AmRaaM on June 22, 2005, 08:09:27 PM

download MAXBLAST 3 and do it.

you're better off using 2 smaller disks mirrored, so if one takes a dump all you have to do is change the cabling position of the disks and your back in business. I even have  a disk cable protruding from my comp and power line that once a month i plug this old HD into and mirror it , then I place in in my fireproof/water proof  $35 safe box at home.

Title: Hard drive question
Post by: Alky on June 23, 2005, 01:45:32 AM

You should be able to just install the 250 as a second HD, transfer the data or leave it as is and run 2 drives, or am I missing something here?

Title: Hard drive question
Post by: Ghosth on June 23, 2005, 07:54:55 AM

BTW it seems the newer HD's have been shipping (at least from some companys) with a CD included.

That CD should have everything you need to partition, format, copy, etc.