I am currently using a 250Gb hard drive that is almost ful due to me recording large amounts of audio and other music related products(VST's and effects etc).
I need to buy a new 1Tb hard drive and copy all of the 250gb hard drive right across, Win 7 included. Everything even virus' if they are there and I need for it to just run straight away as though nothing has changed except for the extra 750Gb of memory if you can see what I mean. I don't want to have to go re-install of of my stuff.
I have a 1Tb drive that I am using as backup at the moment, a slave drive but it has a lot of valuable data on it so I don't want to wipe it, I would prefer to buy a new 1Tb and go from there. Can this be done? Are there any tutorials that show you how to copy a whole hard drive over like this??
thanks for your time, Ste.
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 Home premium - 32 bitPentium(R) Dual-Core CPU - E5400 @ 2.70GHx 2....Corsair memory 4GB TwinX XMS2 6400 DDR2(2 x 2...Onboard
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Gigabyte
OS
Windows 7 Home premium - 32 bit
CPU
Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU - E5400 @ 2.70GHx 2.70GHx
Motherboard
G31M-ES2L
Memory
Corsair memory 4GB TwinX XMS2 6400 DDR2(2 x 2048MB) RAM
Graphics Card(s)
Onboard
Sound Card
Realteck High Definition Audio
Monitor(s) Displays
Single Eizo
Screen Resolution
Don't know
Hard Drives
250 GB Second Generation Caviar SE16 Serial ATA drive,
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB drive
You also have a Western Digital HD listed in your specs. Western Digital offers a scaled down version of Acronis for free. It has a clone feature included in it. You can install ti and clone 1 hard drive to the other, which will transfer your OS, apps, email and everything else. Download it here. It just has to see a western digital drive to work, but does not have to be involved in the transfer. Then you can use the partitioning tool that Pooch linked to, for partitioning it.
