Backing Up/Switching Hard Drives

[LifeStealer]

I've got a 120 gig WD currently with about 80 gigs of NEED TO HAVE stuff and I'm getting a 200gig seagate as well. I eventually want the seagate as the master drive. So would it be possible for me to move the 80 gig of stuff over to the 200 gig while I reformat the 120 as long as post have the same file system (Want to upgrade the 120 from Home to Pro as well)? Or do I need to make cd backups?

 

[gokuhama]

yes you can move the 80 Gigs over to the seagate. just set up the seagate as a slave and drag the stuff over. cd backups aren't necessary....probably a waste of time and lots of cds.

 

[ZL1]

Originally posted by: LifeStealer
I've got a 120 gig WD currently with about 80 gigs of NEED TO HAVE stuff and I'm getting a 200gig seagate as well. I eventually want the seagate as the master drive. So would it be possible for me to move the 80 gig of stuff over to the 200 gig while I reformat the 120 as long as post have the same file system (Want to upgrade the 120 from Home to Pro as well)? Or do I need to make cd backups?

eh. this is gonna take a while. anywho ...

do you plan to install fresh copy of winxp ? if so just wait til you get your new drive. take system apart [well the cover simply has to go off ]. take old hdd out. put new one in. then boot system and install os. then open case again and install the old hdd on the cable that was previously going to the cdrom [leaving cdrom off, but thats temp]. then boot. it will boot from new hdd. then copy files to new hdd

if you need more info on copying personal setting etc. ask specific questions and I will try to help


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