How do you do a Data Transfer?
This is a discussion about How do you do a Data Transfer? in the Windows Hardware category; I just bought a new 200GB IDE hard drive and I want to transfer the data from my old 20GB IDE hard drive to the new one. How do I go on about doing this? Is it even possible? Would Windows get transferred as well?.
I just bought a new 200GB IDE hard drive and I want to transfer the data from my old 20GB IDE hard drive to the new one. How do I go on about doing this? Is it even possible? Would Windows get transferred as well?
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A partition manager such as PartitionMagic will do the trick (although there are others out there).
You'll be able to create, copy, resize and merge disk partitions from one drive to another.
When you copy your 20Gb partition to the new drive you can then resize it to fill the entire space (or you can create further smaller partitions and assign them drive letters). Just make sure to set the new partition to be the active one (you have to do this even if you only have one partition). Windows will cope fine with the change of disk and continue to run normally.
Although daunting at first, the wizards in PartitionMagic should guide you through ok.
BTW - If you can, make sure you backup all the important data that you wish to keep. I personally have never had any problems with PM (or others) but you can never know sometimes.
You'll be able to create, copy, resize and merge disk partitions from one drive to another.
When you copy your 20Gb partition to the new drive you can then resize it to fill the entire space (or you can create further smaller partitions and assign them drive letters). Just make sure to set the new partition to be the active one (you have to do this even if you only have one partition). Windows will cope fine with the change of disk and continue to run normally.
Although daunting at first, the wizards in PartitionMagic should guide you through ok.
BTW - If you can, make sure you backup all the important data that you wish to keep. I personally have never had any problems with PM (or others) but you can never know sometimes.
