Guest nasser jamal Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Dear members, I have an old hard drive which is with a small capacity 40GB, I want to replace it with a new one 80GB, the problem is I need to transfer all the data from the old one to the new on, what is the easiest way. -- nasser
Guest Charles W Davis Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 Re: Transfering data from one hard drive to another Don't replace— add. What I mean is install the new hard drive in the second bay. Then with Windows Explorer, drag My Documents to the new drive. It will probably clear up enough of the 40GB drive to make is functional again. My opinion. "nasser jamal" <nasserjamal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9AC23614-653D-4BBA-AD02-4D2D6B6DDC32@microsoft.com... > Dear members, > I have an old hard drive which is with a small capacity 40GB, I want to > replace it with a new one 80GB, the problem is I need to transfer all the > data from the old one to the new on, what is the easiest way. > > > -- > nasser
Guest nasser jamal Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 Re: Transfering data from one hard drive to another Charles hi, Should the new hard drive be the slave or the master, second is window explorer the same as internet explorer? -- nasser "Charles W Davis" wrote: > Don't replace— add. What I mean is install the new hard drive in the second > bay. Then with Windows Explorer, drag My Documents to the new drive. It > will probably clear up enough of the 40GB drive to make is functional again. > My opinion. > "nasser jamal" <nasserjamal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:9AC23614-653D-4BBA-AD02-4D2D6B6DDC32@microsoft.com... > > Dear members, > > I have an old hard drive which is with a small capacity 40GB, I want to > > replace it with a new one 80GB, the problem is I need to transfer all the > > data from the old one to the new on, what is the easiest way. > > > > > > -- > > nasser >
Guest Alias Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 Re: Transfering data from one hard drive to another nasser jamal wrote: > Charles hi, > Should the new hard drive be the slave or the master, Slave. > second is window > explorer the same as internet explorer? No, Windows Explorer is to explore, move, copy, paste, what is in your computer. Internet Explorer is what you use to go to web sites. Alias
Guest Timothy Daniels Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 Re: Transfering data from one hard drive to another "nasser jamal" asked: > Should the new hard drive be the slave or the master...? For the least work by you, it should be Slave. The BIOS's *default* HD boot order is Master, ch. 0, Slave, ch. 0. Master, ch. 1, Slave, ch. 1. This means that the BIOS will, by default, look first to the Master on IDE ch. 0 for a HD with a valid MBR to which to pass control. If there is no HD there with a valid MBR, it will look to see if there is a Slave on IDE ch. 0 with a valid MBR to which to pass control. And etc. Your BIOS is now set with this default HD boot order, and your boot files are on the Master HD. You could move this HD to the Slave position on the same cable (i.e. on the same IDE channel), but you would have to reset the HD boot order so that that HD is listed first in the HD boot order in order for the Slave HD's MBR to get control. Alternately, you could leave the BIOS's HD boot order as it is and make the new HD Master and move the boot files from the old HD onto the new HD and make the boot.ini file point to the old HD (which will be called "rdisk(1)") in order to load the OS from the old HD. If there are more than 1 partition on the new HD, the partition containing the boot files must be a Primary partition and it must be marked "active". As you can see, it's much easier (but much less educational) to just make the new data HD something other than Master on ch. 0 so that the old HD will continue to control booting. *TimDaniels*
Guest Plato Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: Transfering data from one hard drive to another =?Utf-8?B?bmFzc2VyIGphbWFs?= wrote: > > I have an old hard drive which is with a small capacity 40GB, I want to > replace it with a new one 80GB, the problem is I need to transfer all the > data from the old one to the new on, what is the easiest way. One can try xxclone: http://www.xxclone.com/ -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
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