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About to purchase a new HD, any way to save files?

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rox1co

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uh oh ... seems that i have TOO MUCH stuff and not enough DVDs to back it up, lol

right now i only have 1 250gb HD with 2 partitions, 1st for Windows and 2nd for Storage. i would like to DELETE Windows off this current HD w/o losing my 2nd Storage Partition while turning it into a full 250gb~ storage drive?

the 2nd HD i'm purchasing will be for Windows ONLY
 
Get new drive. Unplug old drive. Plug in new drive. Install windows on new drive. Plug old drive in as slave. Delete data on Windows partition of old drive. Done.

If you want to FORMAT your old drive, then you do what I said above, but skip the delete windows part and just copy the data you need to save to your new drive, and then format the old one when you've got all the data moved.
 
Originally posted by: rox1co
slave? i thought that was only for IDE, i have SATAII

and no it's Internal
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I know it's internal.... you can save all the files you want to an external drive and just copy them over onto your new one when you get it installed 😛
 
Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
Originally posted by: rox1co
slave? i thought that was only for IDE, i have SATAII

and no it's Internal
Click to expand...


I know it's internal.... you can save all the files you want to an external drive and just copy them over onto your new one when you get it installed 😛
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i don't have an external drive ... or an external storage device ...
 
I would get the new drive - then clone the old drive to the new drive. Disconnect the old and boot to the new. If all works, reconnect the old drive and reformat it as one data drive. Move the data from your second partition on the new drive to the single partition old drive. Then create free space on the new drive with PartitionMagic and expand the Windows partition.

Or -simply clone the Windows partition on your old drive to the entire newdrive. Then if that boots OK, delete the Windows partition on the old drive and expand it as above.

Or - keep two partitions on the data drive.
 
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