New Hard drive/transfer

Jiller · 06-17-2008, 12:06 PM

Hello, I have just upgraded the hard drive in my Dell Laptop and was wondering how I can transfer everything from my old HD to my new one. I have a 160GB external HD and was curious if I could back up all of my files and then restore them on my new HD.

I am short on time and have a few more questions... I will check back later... thanks for any assistance!

Jiller

**grimx133** · 06-17-2008, 07:46 PM

Sounds like you may want to image your old drive and restore it onto a new one. I'm not sure on which free utilities are capable of that or how to do it. Personally I use a commercial utility and it works great, but it is expensive. Here a list of free ones and brief descriptions. If you want to go that route, you're going to have to spend a bit of time learning. http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilit...andimage.shtml

06-17-2008, 12:06 PM	#1 (permalink)
Jiller Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Dakota Posts: 77 OS: Vista (Basic Home Edition)	New Hard drive/transfer Hello, I have just upgraded the hard drive in my Dell Laptop and was wondering how I can transfer everything from my old HD to my new one. I have a 160GB external HD and was curious if I could back up all of my files and then restore them on my new HD. I am short on time and have a few more questions... I will check back later... thanks for any assistance! Jiller

06-17-2008, 07:46 PM	#2 (permalink)
grimx133 Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Canada eh Posts: 3,014 OS: xp mce sp2, xp pro sp2, windows 7 beta My System	Re: New Hard drive/transfer Sounds like you may want to image your old drive and restore it onto a new one. I'm not sure on which free utilities are capable of that or how to do it. Personally I use a commercial utility and it works great, but it is expensive. Here a list of free ones and brief descriptions. If you want to go that route, you're going to have to spend a bit of time learning. http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilit...andimage.shtml