I just upgraded my hard drive,how do I get all my programs transfered from my other hard drive to my new one?

Answer 1

You can download a 15 day trial version of a program called ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE.

It will make and EXACT copy of your drive. I have used it many times and it works great!

Answer 2

You can use a program like Norton Ghost to transfer everything.

Although it will take more time, a better route would be freshly installing all the programs onto your new computer.

New computers generally seem faster because the registry is not clogged and webbed with a lot of obsolete entries.

Answer 3

If you upgraded your hard drive, I'm guessing you have at least a slight knowledge of how to attach/detach/exchange computer parts (unless you had it done at a shop). In order to transfer files/programs from one drive to another, you must first have each drive connected to your computer (have one set as master, and one as slave). Then open "my computer" and open your old hard drive, then take all files that you want, and drag them over to your new hard drive. If you need additional assistance, you are welcome to email me any questions. Good Luck, and make sure the power is not connected to your computer while your poking around inside it.

Answer 4

Rather than get in an awful load of aggro, you have 2 options. Either you (by means of the jumpers on the back of the hard drives) set your existing drive to 'master', and your new drive to slave, then boot your pc as before, and there is your new hard drive (will need partitioning) Have you heard of 'Partition Magic'?At this point, you may retire gracefully, you have now got your new drive on your system,ok, its not your system drive, but its there. The rest of this then is 'optional', setting your new drive as system.
On your new drive, create at least a PRIMARY partition, but better, 20gb PRIMARY, the remainder as EXTENDED partition, create LOGICAL drives in the extended partition. On your existing system, ensure (TOOLS>FOLDER OPTIONS ) that your system files are not hidden. Now, you may simply copy the files over.to the PRIMARY partition you created on your new drive.Shut down, Take your drives out of the PC, swap the Master/ slave jumpers over, so your new drive is master and your old drive is slave.Then, restart the PC, using Partition Magic Boot Disks. Set your new drive Primary Partition as 'BOOTABLE' let partition magic do its work, shut down, and re-start.

Answer 5

You can use a program called Norton Ghost which boots from start-up. If both your hard drives are conneced then you can ghost from one to the other. Just make sure that you set the drives as master and slave respectively

Answer 6

i am going to explain this so it will be really easy to do
firstly look at the jumper settings(next to the 5v power connector on your drive)and change the setting from master to slave,you should find a diagram on the hard drive itself,but normally slave is "no leads"meaning no jumper plugs
now that your old drive is set to slave,make sure your new one is set to master,this is normally a jumper setting like this I:::,and slave can sometimes look like this :I::,or this ::::(no jumpers)
now you have both jumper settings correct,you must connect them to ide1 on your motherboard using a 20 pin dual cable,making sure that the slave is the first connected from the motherboard,and master is the connector at the end.
when both your drives are connected and you boot up,press del to enter setup and go into cmos and make sure that your drives are set to auto configuration,this will ensure both drives are recognized by the bios,and they will both boot up
i presume you are going to install xp on your hard drive before you transfer your programs,so once you have,and connected as i have described,you should go start>programs>accesories>system tools>files and settings transfer wizard and you will be asked fro which drive you wish to transfer your programs from(in your case ;d),and to which drive(in your case ;c)
then its just a case of waiting for all your programs and settings to migrate from d drive to c drive
there are many other programs on the market that do a similar job(but you have to pay for them),but why when you have one built into windows!
once you have finished the transfer it would be a good idea to create a restore point ...start>programs>accesories>system tools>system restore>create restore point,so if you have any problems you have a clean point you can restore to
if you have any probs with this transfer ,contact me for any help
good luck

Answer 7

The best way is to reinstall all your programs onto your new drive. It saves a lot of messing around with things like the registry file etc...

Answer 8

Set the old disk as Master and the new as Slave.
Install and run ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE, Click on Clone Disk and follow the wizard.

Shut down when completed, Set the jumper of the new disk as Master and remove the old disk.

Answer 9

You have to be very well thought out before you start taking your computer apart.I guarantee you will be at heart pounding and that in most cases the computer will not function afterwards.Check the wall in your den for your engineering doctoral first!

Answer 10

put them both in and save yourself the bother