Posted: 1/17/2009 10:13:03 AM EDT
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I was looking at getting a new game and realized My hard drives are so Full I don't have enough space.
So I need to upgrade. I'm currently running 2 x 80 GB drives each partitioned in half. What I want to do is buy a 500 or 750 GB drive, and just copy all the files over so I don't need to reinstall windows etc. How feasible is this? I know it can probably be done but what do I need to know going into it? Basically I have 4 drive partitions, I want to plug in the NEW drive and copy C drive over, however Id like to make the partitions bigger. Is this possible without potentially corrupting data? ETA: the new drive will be replacing both 80 GB gig drives entirely, they are getting old and I'd rather replace them than wait for them to fail. |
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I don't think you can get rid of the partitions without reformatting the drive, so if you have your OS on C and you don't want to have to reinstall your OS, you'll probably be stuck with those partitions on C.
As for the other drive, just copy all your files to your new drive, then you can eliminate the two partitions when you reformat the drive. ETA: I don't believe you can just copy the OS files over to a new drive. It won't work that way. |
I don't need the extra 250 gb, so I don't want to spend the extra $40.
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I don't think you can get rid of the partitions without reformatting the drive, so if you have your OS on C and you don't want to have to reinstall your OS, you'll probably be stuck with those partitions on C. As for the other drive, just copy all your files to your new drive, then you can eliminate the two partitions when you reformat the drive. Hmm... Would it be possible to copy C over then expand the partition under windows before copying all the other files over? Unfortunately STEAM is installed on C and you cant specify it to install games on other partitions when you get new Steam games. None of the other partitions matter much to me, but C needs to get bigger. |
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You can get HD Clone the free version makes a dead nuts copy of all partitions on a drive with operating system on it by putting the new drive in as a slave and copy to it.Remove the old and plug the new bigger drive in then go get (Free) EASUS partition expander and increase the partion you want.It does it without losing files either.
Only problem you will run into is the size limit of 320 gigs made for older computers with ATA/IDE drives that connect to the motherboard with an 80 pin flat belt.All the new ones are SATA that have a funky new kind of interface that has screwed me using my other smaller drives as secondary backups.I do not know if they make adapters but probably not so all the old drive system now goes to the dump,real wasteful to me |