i need to know the best and easiest way to transfer all of my stuff from the old hard drive to the new one any ideas thanks in advance
2007-01-27 20:48:19 · 8 answers · asked by amanda m 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Windows XP has a cool tool called file transfer. You can transfer from you old to you new with a cable. Or you could back it up and restore it. Or even burn what you want onto a cd then reload it on new hard drive.
2007-01-27 21:20:31 · answer #1 · answered by felippie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The easiest way is to buy an external hard drive and copy everything you want to it. It will cost you a few bucks but you will own it for future back up, file storage etc. It is very nice to own. Check them out at your local computer stuff place.
The other option is to burn everything to a CD or DVD.
If you don't have too much stuff, you can email it to yourself and get the emails after you install the new HD.
2007-01-28 04:56:27 · answer #2 · answered by pappy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Install the new drive as a secondary, and copy over the files you need to keep. Install the operating system on the new drive with out erasing the existing data. Alternatively you could simple install the new drive as primary and the old drive as secondary, install the operating system on the new drive, and then copy the files you want to keep off your old drive
2007-01-28 04:52:49 · answer #3 · answered by JediElite 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
can be complicated, but not really. you can create a new partition on your older harddrive and put all of the information you want on that partition, then delete the partition with windos on it, format the new harddrive if it needs it and once the OS is on the new hd hook the old one up as a secondary it will show as removable storage device or a second harddrive, depending how the os works. that would be the safe way. or you can just burn everything you want saved to a dvd. and just transfer it all to your new harddrive when your done installing the new OS
2007-01-28 04:56:11 · answer #4 · answered by Kevin G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use Norton Ghost or similar mirroring software if you want to make an exact copy.
If you dont want to use the OS from the new drive just copy and paste the required data to the new drive.
2007-01-28 04:53:28 · answer #5 · answered by Sooraj 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
put your new hard drive in set your old one as a slave drive you can then copy everything over or just keep it as a second drive
2007-01-31 11:41:33 · answer #6 · answered by top cat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what you can buy is whats called an "external harddrive.." sold at bestbuy, compusa, walmart.. ect.
you back everything up on there.. then replace your harddrive (or update, add-on ect.) then send everything from the external drive back to the new hard drive..
here is an example from bestbuy.com
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7643053&st=external+harddrive&type=product&id=1134698030419
and once again.. memory and price range..
good luck
2007-01-28 04:54:42 · answer #7 · answered by andreko 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use ghost 8.0 to ghost you hard driver.
2007-01-28 04:57:15 · answer #8 · answered by tiger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋