changing HD

my c drive is getting FULL, and as it is divided into 4 (5)drives, I want to clone each of the partitions to another drive where the partitions are larger,, , I have the new drive and the old, , I know this is simple, , , but being as I am a Pistachio, can I get a step by step directions for dummy's including which program is best for the cloning XP AMD 2500, oh and how many of the updates can I delete to XP and other windows programs :-o

 

I just do it by mass copying my partitions onto new ones, except for the OS. I just got a 2TB drive and that's the way I'm going. A 100GB partition is now a 500GB partition.:major A simple cut and paste.

 

:wave if I do this "mass copy" does that effect the OS, and the existing programs to find their data which may be on a different drive/partition, and I have forgotten the copy formula (it was Xcopy32) or something <><>a different question: if I did the windows copy/move would that work for making a new C:\drive :wave

 

If you have a Seagate hard drive, or, your new one is a Seagate, then you can clone to a larger hard drive, and all your partitions will be automatically re-sized proportonately.
I have done this using a 1tb hard drive, cloning from a 1.5 tb hard drive, where the partitions were shunk to proportion, and it works well. 9(MINE WAS REALLY DONE TO PRESERVE MY MULTIPLE OPERATING SYSTEM SETUP, IN CASE MY LARGER HARD DRIVE PLAYED UP, AND I HAVE NOW PUT AWAY SAFELY, IN CASE I EVER NEED IT
http://www.seagate.com/support/discwizard/dw_ug.en.pdf
Link to Seagate download (cannot find on majorgeeks-read the pdf, you will find it does much more , if needed
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=d9fd4a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

 

Read the pdf pages for teps to take
Chapter 4. Using Seagate DiscWizard

You just need to install the wizard on your present hard drive then follow the wizard to clone the drive.