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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: I_want_an_Omega on 30 December 2009, 11:57:39
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My desktop machine (Vista Home SP2) has a 250Gb SATA drive which is almost full.
Is there a way of putting everything onto a new 500Gb SATA drive which I've got hold of? I want to move windows, all my programs, files etc.
TIA ........ Rob
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Yes - you need to clone the 250G hd onto the new 500G hd. Suggest a usb enclosure to connect 500G to laptop and software such as Norton Ghost.
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yup, disk clone is the easy way.
the dos based apps may be better than the ones you have to install into windows
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or you could just fit the new hard drive in the case and set it up as a seperate drive for your large files :y
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Yes - you need to clone the 250G hd onto the new 500G hd. Suggest a usb enclosure to connect 500G to laptop and software such as Norton Ghost.
Whoops didn't read your post properly. You can connect new drive up to SATA connector in your desktop.
TB is right - best to use a non-Windows cloner - You can boot Norton Ghost CD (and others) and then run software from CD.
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Ok, lets think about this. My desktop machine only has space/connection for a single SATA drive as its one of those slimline HP jobbies. The DVD drive uses the other SATA connection and it has a tiny PSU also.
What if I take the 250 drive from it and the new 500 drive and install into another PC chassis that does have pri/se SATA connections and then boot from the CD drive in that machine? Would that work?
I suppose another way would be to have the 500 drive USB connected to the PC - but could I then have my Windows Media Centre recorded video files location mapped to that USB drive? It would save a lot of mucking about wouldn't it.
I should have said before that the reason the disk is almost full is that I record TV progs on it from my tuner card.
Comments welcomed.
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temporarily disconnect dvd drive and use 500 gb instead..
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Annother option is to use the 500gb in an external caddy move all your recordings to free up the 250 and then set the record location to the external drive.
Do you have the setup up disk for the machine, install the 500 and do a new windows install with all the drivers and programs you require. Then either slave to 250 in place of the DVD as cem says to copy accross what you want or, again, add it as an external drive, copy what you need to the 500 then format the 250 and keep on the stuff you wish to keep this will keep the 500 as free as possible.
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Annother option is to use the 500gb in an external caddy move all your recordings to free up the 250 and then set the record location to the external drive.
Do you have the setup up disk for the machine, install the 500 and do a new windows install with all the drivers and programs you require. Then either slave to 250 in place of the DVD as cem says to copy accross what you want or, again, add it as an external drive, copy what you need to the 500 then format the 250 and keep on the stuff you wish to keep this will keep the 500 as free as possible.
good explanation.. :y
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500gb usb external hard drive does for me