Copy Hardrive to Hardrive

[pdx2003]

I currently have a 20G HDD and am buying a new one
at least 30G or more. How do I transfer or copy the
information from the old HDD to the new one? I have
little understanding of how to do it. Thanks

 

[wolluf]

Depends what you want to do. Most hard drive manufacturers have utility (available from website if not provided with drive) which will copy existing drive as is to new drive (so should be able to just make it primary master, and run as old drive). So, if that's what you want to do - problem solved.

If you just want to mount new drive as slave and use it as a data repository (eg, music/video files) - just use explorer to copy them.

If you've something else in mind - please post back.

 

[pdx2003]

Im running windows at home and am just wanting to
transfer everything on my current HD to the new
one I get. I'm not really looking at keeping
this one in my current system, just a replacement.

 

[wolluf]

So hard drive manufacturer's utility should do for you.

 

[pdx2003]

Thank you