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Harddrive on way out but can't figure out how to copy data to new hard drive

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  • 25-07-2009 11:42pm
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    joeperry
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    My hard drive is on the way out and i've bought a new internal hard drive.

    I was hoping to copy everything to the new drive but i can't figure it out,i've seached lots and tried various things. i now think the new drive is set up as a slave to the old one.


    Any help appreciated,thanks :pac:


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    MunsterCycling
    Registered Users Posts: 4,864 ✭✭✭MunsterCycling


    Do you have the install disc for yyour OS? If yes then disconnect your old drive and connect the new one and install the OS on that then connect the old drive as a slave and copy the files you want off it.

    MC


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    joeperry
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    Hi,thanks for that.i hope i can find the install disc, cheers.


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    The Muppet
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    You need some hard disk cloning software such as Ghost or Drive Image. There may be free software available to do what you want. Google hard disk cloning.


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    witnessmenow
    Registered Users Posts: 7,152 ✭✭✭witnessmenow


    I used clonezilla recently, worked a treat


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    ttm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭ttm


    Two points from the above posts.....

    1) Reistalling has the advantage that you can clean the crap that you've loaded off your system so at the end of the day you might have a machine that runs a bit faster till the rubish builds up again. You'll also be fairly sure you don't start off with any viruses or malware. Downside is if you've installed tweaks to get things running like video codecs to play Divx vids and stuff like that you'll have to remember what you did and go find and reinstall them. You will also need to remember or find any passwords that you might have long forgotten for email accounts and the like. Finally anything not copied over to the new drive will be lost forever when the original dies. Still I'd go for a clean install and copy over the data I wanted.

    2) If you are cloning your old disk just make very sure that you are cloning from your old disk with data on it to the new disk. Sounds really dumb but I used clone disks eveyday and its easy if the disks are the same size to clone a new disk with no data to the old disk with data and end up with nothing. Best rule is always clone to a larger disk then you can't easily make that mistake.


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