[Ham-Computers] Harddrive question

[Phil KO6BB]

Brian,
Usually when you purchase a new (internal) hard drive you will receive a 
software CD which will permit you to prepare the disk for use, clone an 
old hard drive (such as your "C" drive containing your OS etc) to the 
new drive. I've done this many times as I've had to upgrade to larger 
drives many times as I outgrew them.   I became an "old Hand" at cloning 
drives and ALWAYS kept an extra "C" drive prepared and could slip it 
into the computer quickly should I have a problem with the computer.

NOTE:  The above software note is true if you buy the 'boxed' or 
consumer version of the drive at some place like Best Buy.  IF you buy 
the OEM versions often sold by places like NewEgg, they get the drives 
in bulk and you get no software!

My last computer would support up to 6 internal drives (4 SATA and two 
PATA) had three internal drives, C drive was 1TB and D-E drives were 
each 2TB.  It finally died about Jul 29th (Motherboard SATA ports 
failure) and I bought this new Dell which has a 1TB and a 2TB drive, 
meaning I now need to use my (3TB) external drives much more often.

73 de Phil,  KO6BB
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On 8/10/2011 7:56 AM, Mike wrote:

>
> 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