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Tonstir

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Hey, so I've been on this forum for a while now and I built my computer with help from some people. Today, I would like to know how you switch your operating system and some files on to a new hard drive. I bought a new one that is faster that I want to use for bootup and some programs, and I want to use my other one as storage. So can someone give me the rundown on what I have to do. Thanks
 
You clone your old drive to the new one. It should create a fully bootable larger drive - Acronis TI will do proportional cloning. When you have that done, you cam reformat the old drive to be a storage drive.

If you are also migrating to a new OS, such as Windows 7, you might be better off doing a clean install and reinstalling the selected software you want.
 
Yes, use Ghost or True Image to copy your existing boot drive to your new drive, then use your old one for backups. I bought a nice USB2 external enclosure for my old HDD and now I use it to backup all my other computers.
 
You can use a Ubuntu livecd. It's as simple as typing this into a terminal:

sudo apt-get install gddrescue
ddrescue /dev/sda /dev/sdb (provided that "sda" is your current hard drive and "sdb" is the new one - you can find out by typing "sudo fdisk-l")

It seems to copy the files at 60mb/sec or so which isn't bad. It took me about an hour to clone my 320gb drive. The nice thing is that it's free.
 
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