Thread: Replacing a Hard Drive
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Old 25-01-2007, 12:27   #4
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Re: Replacing a Hard Drive
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Originally Posted by Rob View Post
You could clone all you stuff ove, but why bother. Add the new hard disk in as a second drive, keeping the original. Free up space on the first drive by moving stuff such as data tot he second, leaving the first free for your operating systems and suchlike. The only time you'd want to ditch that first drive is if it is really slow or creaky and about to fall over.
There is no room in the PC for both drives.....

best bet is to clone onto the bigger drive, then stick the original drive into an external firewire / USB caddy and use it for backups etc etc...
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