Shifting the OS to another drive

blasted · 30 Jun 2011 at 15:26

In the past I have had issues with a failed motherboard and RAID setup on my computer. With a new (but same) motherboard I managed to install my OS to an old and slow hardrive and recover the data from the raid set up, thankfully. I have since junked one of the original raid drives as the connector on the back was broken.

As it currently stands I have my OS on my old slow HD. I removed that and tried to install the OS to the one remaining HD, not possible, I tried everything and the windows install would not detect it. So I plugged my old HD back in and booted up, I plug in the other HD and its picked up and works fine, so I try again to install the OS to the ex raid HD and it still wont pick it up. Lots of stress.

I have now ordered a 1tb F3 HD, how hard would it be to transfer the contents of the old HD across without having to try and battle with the windows 7 setup not finding new drives again?

Thanks

blasted · 30 Jun 2011 at 15:42

Do i just clone the old disc onto the new disc, remove old disc and the computer will boot from the new one?

recommend any decent cloning software? what about windows mirror?

blasted · 30 Jun 2011 at 15:56

Thanks

It needs to be easy for me.

blasted · 30 Jun 2011 at 17:16

Thanks chaps,

What does re-sid mean?

blasted · 30 Jun 2011 at 23:52

Thanks again chaps.