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Questions switching drives...

Viper87227

Viper87227

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I am sick of IDE... moving to SATA. I have a crapload of files on my dying 80GB and 60GB drives than I am backing up, but my 120BG IDE is my OS, games, apps disk. I am getting a 74GB raptor and would like that to assume that roll, the 120GB becoming my crappper drive for all the crap i feel like putting on it. Problem is, that 120GB drive has a good 60GB in stuff on it, stuff I can loose, but don't want to sit through re-isntalling. In getting this new HD, I am also moving to a 64-bit setup, so I would like to do a fresh windows install, just to clean out old drivers and whatnot. So, is there any way at all to do a fresh windows install, then copy all my games and crap over to the new drive, then get a copy of my old registry so that I dont have to reinstall everything?
 
Well moving installed applications from one installation to another is borderlining on impossible. You can use a program like "Drive Image" or "ghost", that will actually copy the information from your old drive to your new one. WD has been including a nice little setup disk that will even help you do this (not sure about the 74G raptor, but I'd be surprised if they didn't). The problem you may run into though is that your source drive is bigger than your destination. You may need to resize the partition on your 120 to something less than 68GB. Hope this helps.

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Oldie said:
Well moving installed applications from one installation to another is borderlining on impossible. You can use a program like "Drive Image" or "ghost", that will actually copy the information from your old drive to your new one. WD has been including a nice little setup disk that will even help you do this (not sure about the 74G raptor, but I'd be surprised if they didn't). The problem you may run into though is that your source drive is bigger than your destination. You may need to resize the partition on your 120 to something less than 68GB. Hope this helps.

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well, there isnt more than 74GB of data on it....also, resizing the partition = format. I am not sure I am going to get the drive at this point....its all up in the air. Looking at prices and performance, not sure its worth it
 
Actually there are programs such as "Partition Magic" which are fairly well known and reliable, and will allow you to resize. Most programs like ghost will try to copy the entire partition, even the slack/free space. Thus you have to reduce the size of the old partition to less than the new one if you're downgrading your size. (insert cute remark about frequent spam here) If there's no reason to be in a hurry, the general rule is that you'll get more for less the longer you wait, but that's going to be true whenever you buy. Read some more in the forums, and I would read some guides to drive upgrading to get yourself up to speed about what can/can't be done. I would suggest one at Dan's Data here: http://www.dansdata.com/sbs27.htm, but there are several online. If you do decide to go ahead, I hope it all goes well for you. Depending on what you had, a HDD can be a nice thing to upgrade. Good Luck.
 
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