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Changing system drive harddisk from 80G to 250G

Jun 9, 2006 9:32AM PDT

Hello
I need some advise, my Harddisk 80G is exploding.(too much things) I just bought 250G harddisk.Is there a way to copy the system from 80G to 250G without re-formating and installing?

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The usual.
Jun 9, 2006 10:48AM PDT

1. The drive maker should have a copy tool either with the drive or on their web site.

2. You didn't tell which OS, but if it's XP make sure your XP CD is marked with SP1 or SP2 since XP can't repair the OS if you upsize the drive to over 127GB.

Bob

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Upgrading
Jun 14, 2006 3:04PM PDT

I am on XP..SP2 ...Both my harddisk is from Seagate.
I can't find any thing on their website. Any advise?

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Try Seagate's web site.
Jun 15, 2006 10:59AM PDT
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copy the old one to the new one
Sep 27, 2006 1:33PM PDT

If you hook up both of your drive, then you should see them in the start/explore, then you can copy the old ones to the new drive by just usig copy and paste.
Am I missing something here?
MoHappy

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give ur specs please
Sep 28, 2006 11:26PM PDT

anyway, assuming that u are running win u can set ur 180 HD as slave and copy all files over there.
or if there is anything wrong with that (specs or any other restrictions) u can download True Image software
it has full HD backup feature.
(as far as i undertood u aren't going to use ur new 180 HD to another PC, so won't be any problems with drivers).

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Hopefully in 3 months they got it done.
Sep 28, 2006 11:35PM PDT

Check those dates when replying.

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yeap
Oct 1, 2006 9:17PM PDT
Happy funny enough.
next time i'll definetly check dates.
thank you proffit