New 1tb spin point, how should i set up.

despotofmidnor · 27 May 2009 at 12:19

Hi guys.
I currently have a 120Gb hdd thats running the os and all of my program files.
The hdd is pretty old.
Im running windows 7 64bit atm.
I like to swap around operating systems/do complete re'installs to speed things up every so offten.
I was wondering, am i best partitioning the new spinpoint in half, putting all my games on one half and all my doc on the other making for quicker load times and quicker data trans, and then keep this 120Gb purly for the os?
Or just put it all on the spin point?
Or os on 120, and dont partition the 1tb and just put all docs n progs on there?

Thanks for any help.

bob055 · 27 May 2009 at 12:30

i would like to know this aswell! Free bump!

leexgx · 27 May 2009 at 18:18

that 120gb will be super slow compeared to the F1, get an ghosting program (Samsung should have one one there web site) once its done disconnected the old drive and let it boot up form the new drive your pc most likey will boot up 2x faster or more

despotofmidnor · 27 May 2009 at 23:45

what does that do? Does it move every thing across inc windows so i dont need to mess around with reinstalls?

CaseyChaos · 27 May 2009 at 23:54

Makes an exact image of your OS drive, even icons etc are still in same place on desktop, you won't know you've changed HDD (apart from the speed).

All your programs and games etc will still work as before

despotofmidnor · 28 May 2009 at 00:23

awsome. will look for a 'ghosting' program on their site
thanks guys

CaseyChaos · 28 May 2009 at 00:26

If there isn't one, Norton Ghost is the one I used, found it fairly straight forward and managed to get through it myself along with a 5min call to a friend.

leexgx · 28 May 2009 at 00:29

yes there is get this program http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/trueimage/ its very simple to use

once you have installed it and rebooted the pc start trueimage back up and ignore any wizards that come up as it did not pop up with what i wanted
goto Disk utilities and click on clone, easy way let it decide how to partition it as if its only one partition it will use all space on the 1TB disk (in your case its source 120GB > destination 1000gb)

if you want to play and set it up so OS uses 200GB and make an second partition later on you can do that as well (Manuel layout ) on my other pc i do PC fix stuff on it, it did take some time (1min) to ge to the page where it lets you set sizes, but if your not sure what you are doing best just let it clone the hdd on its own (above)

miniyazz · 28 May 2009 at 11:24

CaseyChaos said:
If there isn't one, Norton Ghost is the one I used, found it fairly straight forward and managed to get through it myself along with a 5min call to a friend.

I tried to use Norton Ghost a few days ago but for some reason the trial version didn't let me make an image of my HDD :confused:

Ended up just getting the trial of Acronis, worked a treat.

Any ideas whether these programs work outside the 15-day trial period with the system and BIOS clocks set back to the original install date?

CaseyChaos · 28 May 2009 at 12:25

I don't know, I had the full version running.

leexgx · 30 May 2009 at 18:33

it work for 15 days it only takes 1 hr max to copy the disk

miniyazz · 30 May 2009 at 20:14

This was me thinking about the unlikely event that I might want to re-image my HDD for another transfer, before I have to reinstall my OS. Being able to reuse the trial would be handy, otherwise there's always doing a quick fresh install on a new disk, installing acronis, cloning the regular boot drive, and doing it that way.