New HDD

[TW]Sponge · 8 Oct 2010 at 01:58

Hi guys, just got a 750gb spinpoint, and currently have a 250gb caviar blue. I need to transfer everything over to the 750gb as my mum is having the 250gb. How would i go about doing this?

MouthBoy · 8 Oct 2010 at 02:07

Personally, I would create 2 partitions on the new HDD and install your operating system on one of the partitions. Then connect the older HDD (ensure you boot on the new one) and then transfer what you need over. You dont have to make 2 partitions btw, you could just install the OS on the new and do the rest of what I said, but personally I like to keep my windows install seperate from my other files.

[TW]Sponge · 8 Oct 2010 at 02:13

thanks smeaney, i dont mean to sound like a noob but i have no idea about hard drives. How do i create seperate partitions then install the os on 1 of them?

MouthBoy · 8 Oct 2010 at 13:47

Well, there is a few ways to go about it but on a fresh install I personally use the installer to setup my partitions. Windows 7 I believe when installing will ask you were to install itself, have a look at the options there and there should be something about partitions.

welshdragon · 8 Oct 2010 at 13:59

This is more a question itself than an answer but could windows backup be used to create a disk image on say an external hd (if you had one) then install the image onto the new hd?

Or create the image on the existing drive, install the new drive and copy image over, then remove old drive?

Or would it benefit from a fresh install?

MouthBoy · 8 Oct 2010 at 14:22

That did cross my mind, but I have never made an image for a HDD that was a different capacity then the one I was making the copy from. I personally would do the fresh install as I feel that you can have a fresh start etc and ye...I just like the feeling of a clean system...lol

Hagar · 8 Oct 2010 at 14:44

sponge999 said:
Hi guys, just got a 750gb spinpoint, and currently have a 250gb caviar blue. I need to transfer everything over to the 750gb as my mum is having the 250gb. How would i go about doing this?

Connect the new hard disk to the computer and create a primary partition using disk manager in windows, whatever size you want.

Download and make a 'clonezilla live' CD

Boot into the clonezilla CD and clone the existing 250Mb drive to the new drive (disk to disk or partition to partition).

RemoveCD and boot into new disk, (check start up HDD settings in bios first).

When all is working, you can reformat old drive.

andy.

dazza13 · 8 Oct 2010 at 15:23

As nkata has already said use clonezilla very easy to use, just used it to move bck up my current system on to a new 1tb drive had no issues at all.