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From: rc on 7 Mar 2010 12:25 Hello group, I am running out of space on my hard drive and want to migrate to a larger one. Can I "copy" my current hard drive onto a larger one? Is it necessary to purchase software to do so. PC running SP with all the SP packages. Also would hate to have to reinstall the many programs involved. Thanks.
From: Bruce Chambers on 7 Mar 2010 12:40 rc wrote: > Hello group, > > I am running out of space on my hard drive and want to migrate to a larger > one. Can I "copy" my current hard drive onto a larger one? Is it necessary > to purchase software to do so. PC running SP with all the SP packages. > Also would hate to have to reinstall the many programs involved. Thanks. > > Many hard drive manufacturers provide a free hard drive cloning utility for just this purpose, when you purchase one of their products. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot
From: airsmoothed on 7 Mar 2010 12:52 On Mar 7, 5:25 pm, "rc" <rc(a)home> wrote: > Hello group, > > I am running out of space on my hard drive and want to migrate to a larger > one. Can I "copy" my current hard drive onto a larger one? Is it necessary > to purchase software to do so. PC running SP with all the SP packages. > Also would hate to have to reinstall the many programs involved. Thanks. I used Acronis trueimage to do exactly what you want to do, the fully functional free trial lasts 30 days IIRC which was fine for my purposes. i had the new HDD in a USB caddy, copied my C: drive to it using Acronis then swapped the old HDD out for the one in the caddy. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/
From: peter on 7 Mar 2010 17:01 As Bruce said but sometimes it does not come with the purchased HD and you need to go to the manufacturers website to download it. You install the program and hook your new HD up When you run the program it "clones" your old drive to the new. you then shut down and remove the old drive and connect the new drive to the same connector as the old was connected to. Then start up and all should run as intended...but as always there are no guarantees... peter -- If you find a posting or message from me offensive,inappropriate or disruptive,please ignore it. If you dont know how to ignore a posting complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate :-) "rc" <rc(a)home> wrote in message news:eT8F$shvKHA.796(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Hello group, > > I am running out of space on my hard drive and want to migrate to a larger > one. Can I "copy" my current hard drive onto a larger one? Is it necessary > to purchase software to do so. PC running SP with all the SP packages. > Also would hate to have to reinstall the many programs involved. Thanks. > >
From: rc on 7 Mar 2010 18:11
Thanks all. "peter" <peter(a)nowhere.net> wrote in message news:eSl4oGkvKHA.732(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > As Bruce said but sometimes it does not come with the > purchased HD and you need to go to the manufacturers > website to download it. > You install the program and hook your new HD up > When you run the program it "clones" your old drive to the new. > you then shut down and remove the old drive and connect the new > drive to the same connector as the old was connected to. > Then start up and all should run as intended...but as always there > are no guarantees... > peter > > -- > If you find a posting or message from me offensive,inappropriate > or disruptive,please ignore it. > If you dont know how to ignore a posting complain > to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate :-) > > "rc" <rc(a)home> wrote in message > news:eT8F$shvKHA.796(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> Hello group, >> >> I am running out of space on my hard drive and want to migrate to a >> larger one. Can I "copy" my current hard drive onto a larger one? Is it >> necessary to purchase software to do so. PC running SP with all the SP >> packages. Also would hate to have to reinstall the many programs >> involved. Thanks. |