What is the best way to transfer data from hard drive to hard drive?

Question

I have a PC that the motherboard went bad on. I would like to pull the HD and drop it into a new pc as a secondary drive. Then I could just drag n drop my data files from drive to drive. sound good? or is there a better way? thanks!!!

Answer 1

You can do that not a problem. Make sure you set it as slave.

Answer 2

if want to use the same hard this the two best opps for you
What is the best way to transfer data from hard drive to hard drive?

1] Get ye self into ye old DOS.
That's what I say.
DOS Command:

cd D:\
D:\
dir

(Where D:\ is the drive that you want to transfer files to )

then

copy C:\*.*

(where C:\ is the drive with the data you want. )

FYI: Dragging and dropping isn't going to work. Files will be in use, and you do have to be using an OS...
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2] If you're wanting to continue to use the drive, you'll need to do a Windows deltree. You have to do this in DOS, so you'll need a Windows 98 startup floppy disk. Type these lines one at a time, then hit enter, and wait until the computer is ready for the next command (it can take up to 30 minutes).

Windows deltree:
1)c:\windows\command\attrib -s -r -h c:\*.*
2)del c:\*.*
3)c:\windows\command\deltree c:\windows

edit: Type everything but the numbers and ")" sign, then hit Enter, at the end of each line.

Answer 3

Get ye self into ye old DOS.
That's what I say.
DOS Command:

cd D:\
D:\
dir

(Where D:\ is the drive that you want to transfer files to )

then

copy C:\*.*

(where C:\ is the drive with the data you want. )

FYI: Dragging and dropping isn't going to work. Files will be in use, and you do have to be using an OS...

Answer 4

If you're wanting to continue to use the drive, you'll need to do a Windows deltree. You have to do this in DOS, so you'll need a Windows 98 startup floppy disk. Type these lines one at a time, then hit enter, and wait until the computer is ready for the next command (it can take up to 30 minutes).

Windows deltree:
1)c:\windows\command\attrib -s -r -h c:\*.*
2)del c:\*.*
3)c:\windows\command\deltree c:\windows

edit: Type everything but the numbers and ")" sign, then hit Enter, at the end of each line.

Answer 5

If your old PC is not working then transfering the HD to your new PC as a slave drive would be the best idea.

Answer 6

Its the best way for data files. This will not work for applications that need to be installed, you will have to reinstall those onto the new hard drive

Answer 7

Use the following USB Enclosure for transferring data between hard drives.

http://www.bixnet.com/usb20fircome.html

Answer 8

ok. so you can shurely and safely copy all your data from the old hdd to the new hdd.

you should not try to copy windows and/or program files, installed programs unless you know what you are dooing. for cloning that hdd`s primary partition, use a disk clone tool.

for copying your documents, use either windows explorer, total commander or any software you know and like for file management.

ps: try not to connect both hdds on the same ide cable and if you do so, be shure that they are not both master or slave. have your new hdd as master and your old one as slave.

use bios utility to auto-detect your old hdd so that your system can see it.

ps: ts2, are you responsible for what you told him to do? you are quite very bad in batch scripting. check what you wrote before you submit!

Answer 9

nope that's pretty much the best way, but u could also just leave the 2nd harddrive in ur new system and use it just as any other harddrive in ur OS, of course u could also buy an external casing and make an external harddrive of it, if u like, but i would advise to simply put it in ur new computer and use it there