New hard drive, need help

Haervii

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I just got a new OEM hard drive to replace my old one. However, i also want all the data on the old one to be transfered to the new because it would be pain in the ass to reinstall everything, plus I don't see how I could retrieve saved games and stuff. SO which is easiest,and/or possible?

1.Have both hard drives running in the computer and just add new stuff to the new hard drive and keep old stuff on the old hard drive

2.Transfer everything from the old one to the new and (hopefully) have it boot up

3. install windows and then transfer everything

Which is my easiest option, and how do I do it? I know about the fundamentals of IDE devices, primary/secondary master/slave but not much beyond that.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help out.
 

bacillus

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a simple solution would be to use drive copy & copy everything to the new hdd & keep all stuff on old drive as backup!
 

Haervii

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Sounds like a good idea, but as I may have mentioned, I am a little inexpereinced and have not idea how to do that. Could you or some other helpful person tell me?