Please Help need to COPY HD

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Merc187

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Guys, this may be a dumb questions to some of you but I am having a hard time getting this done and was wondering if someone could shed some light on the subject.

I have an old seagate 120gb sata hd. This drive is my main drive but is really old now. I bought a new 250 gb sata drive to replace it. How can I basically copy this information over to the new drive and take the old drive out of the system.

The OS installed is Vista 32bit home premium.

Thanks in advance for your help.
 
Install vista on the new drive and then transfer all important files over when both are plugged up.
 
can't i duplicate the drive using partition magic or norton ghost or something like that/
 
Use the Seagate Disc Wizard software (download it from www.seagate.com) - it'll allow you to transfer the old hard drive's contents to the new drive (a proper drive copy) without issues. The software is free and works with Seagate drives, and the 120GB is a Seagate as the OP noted.
 
Syntax Error said:
Acronis True Image Home also does exactly what you're looking to do.
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Seagate Disc Wizard is a stripped down version of True Image nowadays, for Seagate and Maxtor drives, for those that aren't aware of it... been that way for almost a year now.
 
Joe Average said:
Seagate Disc Wizard is a stripped down version of True Image nowadays, for Seagate and Maxtor drives, for those that aren't aware of it... been that way for almost a year now.
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I'm curious to know whether this disk utility is compatible with non-Seagate disks. It'd be a nice free tool for friends and family to use if it were compatible with other manufacturer's disks. :)
 
thank you again for your help. My last question is can i put the master disk and the new HD in a 3rd computer and do the transfer there or do i have to have the computer use the master disk and do the transfer from the master to a blank slave.?
 
You can copy the hard disk in any computer, it pretty much just copies the partition byte for byte.
 
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