[Ham-Computers] Harddrive question

[Mike]

Not quite enough info, Brian.

If the old drive is your system drive, do you want to transfer the system and all 
your programs and have a bootable drive? If so you're going to need a utility. I 
really like Acronis TruImage, but there are others such as Norton Ghost.
They'll take care of the formatting and partitioning for you. You have to, of course, 
physically install the drive.

The term "data" is usually used to refer to files that programs use, like your log 
files, Word documents, text files etc.

If that's what you're looking for, you need to install the hard drive, make sure the 
computer knows it's there, format and (optionally) partition it, then use WIndows 
Explorer to copy what you need.

All this is assuming you're talking about a Windows machine.

HTH,
Mike NF4L

On 8/9/2011 8:50 PM, Brian K. Gaskamp wrote:
> Hello to all, I am wanting to add a bigger harddrive to my desktop computer
> and when I'm done adding it I want to transfer all the data off the old HD
> and onto the new one.
>
> Can someone direct me to a website that would explain how thats actually
> done.
> I tried to Google it but didn't know exactly how to word it.
>
> So thats why I'm posting the question here.
>
> Thanks and 73
> Brian
>
> KA5BKG
>
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