moving stuff to new HD?

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Rydawg5143

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SO originally bought a 3200 aaks, decided today i should get a 6400aaks since i can still return the other one for refund. How hard is it to get all current items from old to new. Have vista premium oem. Also have a 500 gb ext drive, be easiest to move everything to the ext drive then back to the 6400 once OS is reinstalled?
 
If you want to and will have the 320 and the 640 at the same time (ie before you send the 320 back), the easiest method would be to simply clone the 320 onto the 640. There are plenty of free tools that will do that for you (google for UBCD - it's a bootable CD that has tons of tools, including cloning ones). This saves you the effort of having to reinstall your OS and programs.

If you won't have the two drives at the same time, you could try cloning from the 320 to the external, then to the 640, but double check that the program you're using will be able to access the external. Otherwise, just copy everything you need to the external and then copy to the 640 once you've got the OS installed.
 
I'll have them at the same time, will try and clone it this weekend. UBCD, is the name of a program i assume?
 
nevermind me, i sometimes still ask questions before i look stuff up myself :p im slow that way :p
 
New retail packaged hard drives will usually include cloning utilities on a CD. if you get an OEM drive, (a bare drive in a static bag) you can usually still download said tools from the manufacturer's website, as an ISO or a windows app that will set things up under windows and execute the cloning from the pre-windows environment on your disk.
 
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