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Transferring data from one drive to another

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Joe_90

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Hi, I'm a bit of a computer biff and could do with some help. I recently installed a new hardrive into my computer alongside the original. The original (C drive) is only about 16 Gig and the one I installed (J drive) is 80. Now I only have about 900meg left on the C drive and I was wondering how to take everything off of that onto my new J drive as my computer is running really slow and I suspect that is one of the problems. I am running windows XP. Thanks for your help in advance.
 
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Joe_90 said:
Hi, I'm a bit of a computer biff and could do with some help. I recently installed a new hardrive into my computer alongside the original. The original (C drive) is only about 16 Gig and the one I installed (J drive) is 80. Now I only have about 900meg left on the C drive and I was wondering how to take everything off of that onto my new J drive as my computer is running really slow and I suspect that is one of the problems. I am running windows XP. Thanks for your help in advance.
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I wouldnt bother shifting it to be honest. If I was going to move anything, I would take the files that are not associated with windows over.

If you did want to put windows on the new drive then you need to reisntall windows to that drive. You cannot drag and drop installed programs to a new drive. Has registry issues.
 
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CodeMonkey

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ASk a local computer person to ghost the data across, this will move all the data to the new drive without screwwing anything up. You will also need to make sure the old XP partition is no longer active.

This can be done using the old FDISK utility.
 
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Joe_90

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I think I'll go with the first idea of just moving across all the stuff that isn't windows related. I just want to clear a little bit of space on the drive after all.
 
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TrenchardsLoveSock

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I cleared a load of space by moving the "My Documents" folder to my new drive (load of photos etc.).

If using XP you should be able to right-click the My Docs folder in Windows Explorer and then set it to your new drive. I recommend copying it across and then deleting the old one once you are happy the new folder is OK. As a bonus, if Windows goes tilt and needs to be re-installed, you won't lose everything.

Also, you could move some of the programs across (although you would probably lose any saves in games etc.). Don't just move the folders though, you have to uninstall and then re-install them on your new drive.
 
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Comms_Lad

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As already said, leave XP on your C: drive but move everything across to the new hard drive, but beware 90GB wont last long.

Nearyly 500GB filled and looking for more storage now lol
 
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maninthevan

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Comms Lad,

Put some in the internal mail for me will you m8..?

Cheers fella!!

:PDT_Xtremez_28: :PDT_Xtremez_28:
 
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maninthevan

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Just pass it along to Scaleywife. Don't tell her what it is though... I'll never get it back!!
 
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scaleywife

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Off Topic No I don't read them... I can't be bothered. What he means though CL is that I will keep it for myself!!! lolOff Topic
 
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