Ok i have 440 gb in my system. a 320 gb(d) drive, which doesnt really effect but my OS is on my 120 gb(c) drive my question is i just bought a 500 gb hard drive, any way possible to get all the data from the C drive onto the one i just purchased? and if so can i just copy the OS over to it......if not can i put the hard drive in a diff computer, put the OS on it.....then take it out of the computer and just put it in my main one? But with this still i dont have my data from the 120gb and no i dont have enuff storage on the 320 to hold all my data on the 120(sad i know)
can use ghost to copy info off 120gig onto 500gig then take 120gig out of case. i do that all the time.
Norton Ghost and Casper XP are programs that allow you to copy one partition or hard drive to another and still allow it to be bootable.
ok so currently i have C(os system) 120 gb D320 gb in plastic my 500 gb hd...........so take my 320 out and put my 500 in?and copy that way?
or you can put the new drive in an external enclosure and copy over usb. either way, use a ghosting program or the new partition won't be bootable.
so the way i said would work? just take out my current 320 GB D Drive......and just plug my new one up and ghost copy?
yes. but try and do some research on google for a walkthrough on using norton ghost. it CAN harm the data but just make sure you use it correctly. just take out your 320 GB HDD, put in your new 500 GB, use ghost to copy everything from your 120 to 500. then once you copy everything from your 120 gig, replace it with the 320 and you will have 820 GB of hard drive space i have 2 x 250 GB internal HD's and one 400 GB external im still trying to trying to get to 1 Terabyte of storage lol
as was i.........on the terabyte thus halfway there with my new purchase, seagate 500 gb for 100 bucks after rebates from tigerdirect.....unfortunately it says one rebate per household, was going to get 2
problem is they give u one invoice, which has my address on it. And you have to turn your invoice in with the rebate. Im still going to try it though. Whats the worst that could happen.
browse around newegg.com and see what kinda specials they are running. i know a few weeks ago they had a 500 GB Western Digital HDD for $99.99 without any rebates. see what you can find! having 1 terabyte will be nice but only for about a year. after that it will be pretty common place! hard drives are getting so cheap, so fast, that it will be almost stupid not to go with that much storage.
