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jay clarke · 02-25-2007, 04:36 PM

Hi there

I have a Dell Dimension 8300, and the short of it is, I have 2 Hard Disks, 1 80 GB and 1 110GB taking up the two bays. I want to swap the original one of them for a much bigger faster drive, how do I go about this without losing vital programs like windows and stuff, would it be possible if done this way...

Copy the entire 68 GBs of the first one only an external drive then swap the old harddisk for a new better one, then move everything back from the external onto the new drive, keeping the same drive letter and everything? or is it harder?

Cheers

02-25-2007, 04:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
jay clarke Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 1 OS: XP	Replacing Internal Hard Drive? Hi there I have a Dell Dimension 8300, and the short of it is, I have 2 Hard Disks, 1 80 GB and 1 110GB taking up the two bays. I want to swap the original one of them for a much bigger faster drive, how do I go about this without losing vital programs like windows and stuff, would it be possible if done this way... Copy the entire 68 GBs of the first one only an external drive then swap the old harddisk for a new better one, then move everything back from the external onto the new drive, keeping the same drive letter and everything? or is it harder? Cheers