Migrating data to new HDD?

Strawberry · 30 Mar 2010 at 17:38

Hey,

This is my current setup:
Single IDE drive with 3 partitions (System (60 GB), Data (220 GB) and Imagery (20 GB)).

I am soon upgrading to a 1 TB S-ATA II drive. Are there any tools to completely copy all of my data to the new drive (while expanding the partitions)? I really don't want to reinstall Windows, and I'm hoping to replace the IDE by the SATA completely.

I'm wanting to have the System drive be at least 120 GB large, Imagery 40 GB and Data 840 GB.

Is this possible or will I have to reinstall / copy all my data manually?
If so, I'd rather just use both and boot off the IDE and use the S-ATA for games / data.

To clarify, I also want the boot sector etc. copied, so I can just completely take out my old drive and boot as if nothing happened.

Strawberry · 30 Mar 2010 at 17:59

Cheers, sounds perfect.

Strawberry · 31 Mar 2010 at 19:33

Nope, BIOS tells me the bootmanager is missing if I unplug my primary hard drive (and configure the BIOS to boot from the S-ATA).

I guess I'll just use both and set up a software RAID, is this possible?
Edit: Urgh I can't create striped volumes on my IDE drive, only on my S-ATA. (Unless I'm doing something wrong, I thought software RAID worked for all drives).

Strawberry · 31 Mar 2010 at 19:52

I don't have a DVD drive.

Edit: Oh **** this, I've just left my old OS as it is and mounted the new drive as a 1TB partition for games / downloads etc. Don't really care anymore about having the OS on the fast drive. Windows is stupid, won't let me fix the MBR on a non-primary drive without a DVD.