new hard drive question

keno-daytrader

Hi folks, I have a new hard drive (sata) and win7 arriving the end of the week.

I plan to install win 7 on the new hard drive, now while in win7 can i move some files and folders from my old hard drive (on vista) to the new one if I have the old hard drive installed as a secondary hd?

Im clueless when it comes to moving files/programs off old hard drives.

Leman_Russ

keno-daytrader wrote: »

Hi folks, I have a new hard drive (sata) and win7 arriving the end of the week.

I plan to install win 7 on the new hard drive, now while in win7 can i move some files and folders from my old hard drive (on vista) to the new one if I have the old hard drive installed as a secondary hd?

Im clueless when it comes to moving files/programs off old hard drives.

Yes, so long as the HDD isn't encrypted or other such shenanigans.

The easiest thing to do though is to put everything you want to keep in a folder on the root Directrory (i.e. "C:\Backup"), install W7 onto the new Drive, copy that over onto the new drive, then format the old one.

Unless you are planning on Dual Booting of course.

For programs though, do not just copy them over, you'll need to freshly install them.

keno-daytrader

thanks a mil thats the info i was looking for.