hard drive transfer?

alright well i just need to know if this can be done. I have an pretty old comp that has 80GB hard drive and it still runs fast as hell but the only thing im having problem with is its running out of space on C drive. I have it partitioned into C , D , E , F , G drives and C has like 300mb left and F has 1.50GB ... so there starting to run quite low.

My question is it possible to buy like a 300GB hard drive partition it to C , D ,E ,F ,G and transfer what i have on this hard drive to the new one? because i dont really want to lose all my info , music etc.. i have new computers but i dont use them as much as this one and there for rather keep this one and not buy another new computer

Thanks

 

ok but lets say that i dont have enough IDE ports.. is it possible to just to a straight transfer including C drive??

Another question is about the other drives when u tranfer (copy paste) to the new drive would all the program still be registered and be exactly like they are now?

 

You can use hard drive imaging software to copy the entire 80gb drive (all partitions) to the new hard drive and do it all in one shot. I've used Norton Ghost for years for drive imaging, but it isn't free. Many times, when you buy the new hard drive, it will come with a disk full of utilities, one of which should be an imaging program. When a drive is copied this way, the new drive will function EXACTLY like the old drive: all the programs, data, personal settings, etc., will be identical. Check the Drive Utilities section or the Back Up section here at MajorGeeks for other (possibly free) drive imaging utilities. Maybe someone will post a suggestion or two for you. Good luck!

hd2k

I forgot to mention that in order to image the old drive to the new drive, you MUST have an available IDE channel. You can put 2 devices on each IDE channel; jumper the old 80gb as master, and the new 300gb as slave. I prefer to have each hard drive as master on its own channel and I boot to a floppy disk to copy the drives, but this may not be possible in your scenario if you need to boot to a CD, or if you don't have a floppy drive.