Re: Hard Drive to Hard Drive Transfer...

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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:27:00 -0700, hidekelip
<hidekelip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello All...

I was wondering, how can you transfer ALL of your data from one hard drive
(which is installed on you pc, and is the master drive) to a new, bigger,
drive? The thing is that i wish to buy a bigger hard drive for my pc, but i
want to just, i dont know, transfer all of the data without losing anything,
so that all my programs, and shortcuts, etc. wont be jacked up......... is
there any type of software/hardware i need...?



You need disk cloning software to do this. Usually a new drive comes
with software to do this, or if yours doesn't, you can usually
download it from the manufacturer's site.

If you want to buy a product like this (very useful for backups), I
recommend the excellent Acronis True Image.

Beware the incorrect advice to do this using Diskcopy.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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