About five years ago I added a larger hard drive to my computer and instead of having it transfer all the files, including OS, to the larger one, I left it on the 1GB hard drive. I now want to move it all and consolidate onto one drive, to the larger drive
2006-06-24 06:02:35 · 6 answers · asked by bacovioiii 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Just format the larger hard drive and install windows onto it and then copy your relevant data onto it and then use your bios to select it to be the boot drive.
2006-06-24 06:05:10 · answer #1 · answered by John Luke 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will not have success just copying the OS over to another drive. It needs to be a new install.
2006-06-24 13:06:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Back it all up onto discs and install them on the bigger hard drive
leave the os on c:
Have all the programs and files on the other HD ( on mine its d:)
The computer automatically uses c: to boot the pc so........
2006-06-24 13:10:06 · answer #3 · answered by snakeman11426 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could use ghost to transfer the older drives image to a partition on the new drive and then boot from that partition.
2006-06-24 13:14:14 · answer #4 · answered by Interested Dude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good choice, since the larger harddrive probably is faster.. im not sure if you can move the os though.. i know that you can move all the other stuff easily though..
2006-06-24 13:06:21 · answer #5 · answered by David 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use FDISK
2006-06-24 13:37:03 · answer #6 · answered by Meisi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋