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WackFiend

#1 October 16, 2007, 11:19:54 am
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i'm looking to upgrade my harddrive to something in the 300GB area, but I don't want to half to manually transer all of my files over via CD/DVDs and the like.  I've heard I could just "migrate" all the files I have on my current hard drive to a new one.  What would that require, how well does it work, and can I do this with Windows also (save me from having to get a copy of XP)?
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#2 October 16, 2007, 12:42:31 pm
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Why wouldn't you just install the hard drive into your computer and then copy the files over that way? (I'm assuming you're not on a laptop.)

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#3 October 17, 2007, 12:22:06 am
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If you could get your hands on a tape drive I think the best way would be to use microsoft backup to backup the entire harddrive into one file (this ensures it copies EVERY SINGLE THING) and then restore it fully with vomume mounts and security settings onto the new drive.
Windows doesn't like to be moved around in my experience but if you copy everything exactly then you can try and try again until it works.
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#4 October 17, 2007, 11:28:26 am
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you could just put your new hard drive in keeping your old one as well
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Kole

#5 October 28, 2007, 12:20:08 am
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Also don't forget to set the pins of your previous hard drive to slave,  the stuff inside will still work so as long as it's set to slave.  One IDE cable can only hold one Master and Slave connections so just leave your new harddrive as is make sure that it's on master though.
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Jester

#6 October 28, 2007, 12:23:40 am
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And if your old one is IDE and your new one is SATA-3 or whatever it's called there are converters for that. I found one on eBay by searching for really obvious stuff.
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#7 October 28, 2007, 02:12:54 am
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You could also get an external enclosure or open an external harddrive case and put it in there (assuming it has the same interface) and copy it that way (although I guess it'd be kind of slow unless you are using something that isn't USB)
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#8 October 28, 2007, 12:46:23 pm
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Quote from: ATARI on October 28, 2007, 02:12:54 am
You could also get an external enclosure or open an external harddrive case and put it in there (assuming it has the same interface) and copy it that way (although I guess it'd be kind of slow unless you are using something that isn't USB)

Some of the drives currently inside my PC came from external drives I opened, so yeah, it's the same.

Ofcoarse they are IDE and I had to install a PCI card (with 2 IDE ports) to fit them (My PC only has one IDE port and my DVD drives use it) but the fact remains.
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