New HDD

[yaarpanjabi]

Hi guys, I've just purchased a new HDD and I want to transfer all my data from the old hard drive to this one as the older one is MUCH slower than this. What should I keep on the older one? By that I mean, should I have my windows and programs running from this HDD, or only the programs/windows?

If i should transfer everything from the older one to the new one, whats the best way of doing that?

Cheers.

[Boca]

What are the speed differences/size differences/interface differences ..etc...

Personally, if your new drives big enough, and substantially larger than your old drive, I can't see why you'd want a smaller slower older drive bottlenecking your system.

[yaarpanjabi]

Old Drive - 40GB
New Drive - 160GB

I'm guessing the new one will have a bigger chache and write speed too since the old one's about 4 years old.

[ctjoyce]

Though a bigger cache it will have, the read write speeds are the same for all 7200RPM drives.

The best way to do it is install windows on the new drive with the old drive unplugged, then once you're all booted, bring everything over from the old drive. Also don't just copy program files, reinstall them.

Cheers
Cameron

[jimcooper1]

Go to this website and get Acronis
http://www.acronis.com/promo/ATI/true-i ... EAodaGzXLw

You can then clone your old disk on to your new disk.

However...a clean install of all your old programs is good way of housekeeping.  You could keep the old drive on as a Slave and migrate the data across as and when you use it.

regards

Jim

[Boca]

You could keep the old drive on as a Slave and migrate the data across as and when you use it.

Thats what I did. And Cameron, I have checked and even though both my drives are 7200 rpm, the older smaller one runs slightly slower ( 0.4 ms ) slower than the big newer one. So they don't all have the same seek times..etc.. (although I'll admit in real world performance you would never notice.)