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Changing Hard Drives

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Ok, I am building a new system. I also have a new larger, faster hard drive.

Here's what I want to do: I want to copy the old drive's contents to the new drive, but I really don't care if the OS, as installed in the old drive, works or not...I'm going to have new components, so the OS will need reinstalling anyway.
I intend to reinstall my OS on the new drive. I just don't want to lose my old stuff.

How would I go abou this? Should I just partition the new drive and back up the old one on one partition, then install the OS on the first partition?

I'm hoping there's a solution besides backing everything on the old drive up to CD....it's 30 gigs of stuff. I don't need it all, but I'd rather copy it over and delete it later if possible.

 
Define "stuff". Do you want to preserve your current application environment, program groups, shortcuts, and associations, or is this "stuff" just archived data like .MP3, .ZIP, or video files?

You already have a backup, your old HDD, no need to put it all on CD.
 
As said; you already have a backup. Install your new OS on your new drive, partitioning any way you choose. Copy or move any old data etc from the old drive to the new - you will have to reinstall most of your programs anyway.

Keep your old drive as a data backup device.
 
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