I have a 20 gig C drive. It has become too full to use defrag.
I have DVD-RW DISK drives and they want space on C.
Windows will not let me move ALL of C drive to my D drive.
How can I replace my C drive with a larger hard drive, without losing my software installed on C now?
I certainly don't wish to have to run thru with reloading Windows and re-verifying the codes.
A computer store said they could do the replacement, BUT HOW CAN THEY?
email:[Removed]Google [acronis]How big is your D drive and C drive?Not that this will help, it is just the info...

By making a "clone" of your hard drive onto another.
They would boot a computer with the following CONFIG:

Primary Master:Their own OS
Primary Slave: Possibly Their own CD/DVD Drive
Secondary Master: Your 20GB Drive
Secondary Slave: Your newer, bigger drive.

What they do is run a program that copies the exact contents of your C: drive onto the newer one, 1:1 copy, so any FRAGMENTS stay in the same place, they do not GET fixed automatically. It is just like TAKING an picture, and then using that picture to reconstruct a scene, perfectly.

Is the D: drive perhaps your DVD-RW Drive? because when you move files there, windows simply makes a copy to prepare it for burning.