My C drive is old and small. I've done everything I can to prolong its life but the end is nigh.
I know how to fit a new drive but how do I fit a new C drive without losing everything that's on the old one ?
I'm using Windows XP Pro.
2006-09-27 22:44:32 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Try the disk imaging which can be downloaded from internet.
2006-09-27 22:46:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Plug the new drive in as the second hard disk.
2) Format the new drive, if neccessary
3) Install Norton Image Ghost, or a similar program
4) With Ghost, copy the full contents of the original C to the new drive.
5) Switch the drives around (you can leave the old C out completely, too)
2006-09-28 05:54:53 · answer #2 · answered by OMG, I ♥ PONIES!!1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well there is an easy solution if you have a motherboard that has a spare ide interface. you connect the new hard disk into another slot on motherboard then power up pc and it will assign the new hard disk an adress e:, etc. when the computer has fully loaded format you drive by going into my comuter, now all of the data can be booted off your old hard disk but you now have the **Gb of space from the new disk.
to replace the old disk you could copy ALL of the info to the new disk then when the comp is off replace the disk and boot the comp up as normal.
THIS MAY BE RISKY SO HAVE A BACK-UP COPY OF THE INFO ON A DVD JUST IN CASE
2006-09-28 05:58:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very simple. Store all the information you have on your drive C, onto another drive like D, E or F. Format drive C and after you're done with it, you can transfer tha information back to it from the other drives. But, do you have enough space on the hard disk to do that? If not, you can attach another hard disk for that purpose, or, you can write the information on a CD and format it. You can download it from the CD later on. Good luck!
2006-09-28 06:08:24 · answer #4 · answered by Harry thePotter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fit a new drive as a slave as drive D, retain the old drive as your system disk
OR
fit the new drive, load the OS, reload all the software
attach the old drive as a slave (as D:) and then copy all the data accross
OR
do a backup of the old drive onto CD's or DVD's, and restore from that
OR buy a external hard drive enclosure for about £10..30 and use that for you old drive and copy from that info as required. you can use the external drive to do a quick backup of data, or store things like MP3's which can be easily exhanged with your mates....
2006-09-28 05:55:49 · answer #5 · answered by Mark J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is your operating system. If you have the disk, you would be better off to reload to a new drive ,install the old drive as E, and copy the data to C. If the old drive is dying it is not much use and should be replaced.
2006-09-28 06:03:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can have the 2 hooked up at the same time but just ensure you sort the boot sequence out in the bios and the jumpers on the new drive to slave, to ensure boots from orig c drive. then use an imaging prog to trf it across.
2006-09-28 05:50:50 · answer #7 · answered by Paul S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whatever solution you decide to choose, just make sure you have backups of all your data on removable media, such as CDRs or DVDRs in case the drive suddenly dies, or the transfer process goes wrong.
2006-09-28 06:06:35 · answer #8 · answered by Phish 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What I would do is use the old drive as a slave and just copy what you nedd onto you new HDD!
2006-09-28 05:54:43 · answer #9 · answered by john g 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not much of a techie, but couldn't you get an external HD and transfer the data to that, then back to your new internal HD?
2006-09-28 05:52:02 · answer #10 · answered by le_coupe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋