Looking for free software for formatting?

Question

I have a Dell 4600 with 80gig I purchased a 160gig WD I need to transfer info from 80 to 160 and reformat 80 for a new operating system to be installed later down the road

Answer 1

Once you have the data transfered and you want to reformat the old drive, right click My Computer, select Manage, go to Disk Management, pick the old 80gb drive and select format....

Answer 2

You can purchase a hard drive cloning program such as Norton Ghost or Drive Image. Put the 160 drive into the PC as a second drive and use the program to clone the 80 drive onto the 160.

Or if you do not want to spend the money, but the 160 into the PC in place of the 80. Install Windows and any other software you want. Then add the 80 as a second drive and copy any data (pictures, music, vids, etc) over to the 160.

Answer 3

I will assume you have "Windows" installed on your computer. What you want to do can be done easily, without looking for a sotware.
Install the hard drive you just purchased into your computer, but leave the old one alone. Start your computer and format the new hard drive.
Now you can copy all the information you want to the new hard drive. After you are done with that, make a bootable diskette (if you don't have one already) in "Windows". Insert the diskette into the floppy drive, restart your computer, enter the BIOS setup program, specify the floppy drive as the primary booting device, save the settings and restart the computer. Now format the old hard drive and install whatever operating system you want on it.

Answer 4

First, your new drive may have come with software to help you copy your old drive to your new drive.

Easiest/Riskiest way:

When you boot off your new drive, format the old drive before you remove it from the box.

Safer:

Go to bootdisk.com and get a boot disk.