My computer has two hard drives. The one I'm using only has 10% free space. The one I want to switch to has 83%. My question is how do I get my Internet, Windows, and everything else I want over to the one with 83%?
2007-07-06 12:40:28 · 5 answers · asked by Amy 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Transfer all your personal folders, documents, pictures etc: to your secondary drive, leaving your operating system and programs on your primary drive.
You would have to change the defaults in your programs so that they know where to look for your files etc:
You could also move your virtual memory to your secondary drive, which might even speed up your machine.
2007-07-06 12:58:11 · answer #1 · answered by Lew 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If both drives are physically in the computer moving the operating system to it may not be necessary, just store files and move then to the other one, you can have both drives in there, otherwise you can pop the drive into a free bay inside your case, if you are not comfortable with taking apart the case, take it to a repairman, or even better, a local geek, they can help you out.
2007-07-06 13:14:16 · answer #2 · answered by Success Ink 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would have to reinstall everything from scratch. Alternatively, you could get all the data off the larger drive (I'm assuming it's all data) onto dvds or an external drive, clone your smaller one onto it with Ghost or something like it, then put the data you backed off onto the smaller drive.
What you can't do is just copy stuff over.
2007-07-06 12:45:30 · answer #3 · answered by conehead 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Move non-essential stuff (i.e. pictures, music etc..) over to the other drive - don't switch primary drives.
Learn how to manage files.
2007-07-06 12:45:04 · answer #4 · answered by Fester Frump 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use a program like GHOST to image the drive from one to the other. or just install/save things to the other drive
2007-07-06 12:45:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋