Moving Windows

[Snakedoctor]

I am going to be getting a larger drive for my main OS as my old IDE drive is filling up. I am going to pop a 500gb sata drive in. The thing is, my OS has been installed for 9 months and is working really well, with lots of games etc installed. Is there some software which will take the contents of my IDE drive and put it on my new SATA drive so I can simply boot back up without reinstalling?

I have heard Acronis can do this, is this so, can you simply take the program and transfer my entire hard drive and it to boot ok?

Cheers

 

[Snakedoctor]

Yes, you can do this with Acronis; there's an option to clone a drive which is for what you want to do.

Depending on the make of your hard drive, some hard drive manufacturers offer this type of software for free. It may be worth you looking into, save you some money.

Cheers, I thought so. I doubt if it will, its an OEM, no software included.

I want the Main 500gb sata as my OS drive due to SATA's decreased access times so it would be better to move the stuff and then format my IDE for storage.

 

[Snakedoctor]

It's a Western Digital drive, been looking at there software downloads of the drive and could not see anything that would do this.