Transfrering stuff from one HDD to another

[ShadowFold]

Im getting my Seagate 7200.10 RPM 250gb today and I would like to transfer my music, pics, game saves, etc to it and I was wondering if I made a partion on the Seagate like 50gb for the OS and left the extra 200gb for all my games music, pics etc. would that work? Or is there an easier way or is it not possible..

[Easy Rhino]

Im getting my Seagate 7200.10 RPM 250gb today and I would like to transfer my music, pics, game saves, etc to it and I was wondering if I made a partion on the Seagate like 50gb for the OS and left the extra 200gb for all my games music, pics etc. would that work? Or is there an easier way or is it not possible..

yea, just partition it that way and make sure you don't blow it out when you install your OS to the 50 gig partition.

[ShadowFold]

Ok so what I would do is format a partion for XP Pro(think 20gb would be enough?) then install XP Pro and all the drivers. Then I format the other 200+gb partion and boot from my old western dig and transfer to the 200gb+ partion?

[HTC]

yea, just partition it that way and make sure you don't blow it out when you install your OS to the 50 gig partition.

Like i did, sorta, once. I have 2 * 500 GB drives and wanted to make a fresh install in the 1st one so i opted to move everything i wanted to keep to my 2nd drive so that i could make a fresh install in the other ... and then i formated the 2nd one ... :slap:

EDIT

Lost about ... 410 GBs or so :(

[Easy Rhino]

Ok so what I would do is format a partion for XP Pro(think 20gb would be enough?) then install XP Pro and all the drivers. Then I format the other 200+gb partion and boot from my old western dig and transfer to the 200gb+ partion?

this is how i would do it. keep the original drive connected. connect the new 250 drive. partition the new drive with 40 gig for OS and 210 for everything else. copy all the movie/pic/etc to the 210 partition. shutdown and disconnect old drive. powerup and install OS to the 40 gig drive and everything should be good. make sure you keep your stuff on your old drive just incase something happens in the install process of the new drive.

[ShadowFold]

Yea im making a huge folder with everything in it now and making copies of everything. Thanks :)

[FatForester]

If you don't really want to reformat, there's a freebie tool from Western Digital (Seagate probably has one as well) that copies everything from one hard drive to another including the MBR. It all depends on how your partitions are set up on the 250gb WD you have right now though. Western Digital Lifeguard is also good at copying thousands of files, since it tells you any errors of copying AFTER it's all done, instead of stopping the transfer for a confirmation. It's really handy if you have to copy say, 200GB of stuff over but don't want to sit there for 3 hours while it does it in case if an error pops up. It's just an alternative to reformatting. I used to install fresh XP Pro on an old 40gb drive and ghost it over to the bigger hard drive to avoid reinstalling Windows.

[ShadowFold]

No I wanna do a fresh install cause I still got ATi drivers and old foxconn ones too probably and ive been on this os for like 3 months now.. new record for me :eek:

[zCexVe]

well,I did a fresh install today coz it gave me BSODs mainly due to VGA driver crashing (ATI) after I played CoH:OF.It is after 11 months :D.I like to troubleshoot,not to reinstall.I love to keep a install as long as possible.I'm done configurung all but the great still awaits :P THe Adobe master suite :(

[ShadowFold]

I should be getting it in 3-4 hours :D think I will notice a speed difference in loading games and boot time? Its the Seagate 250gb 8mb cache btw

[smig]

read my answer in your other post