Solve : Hard drive ad-on?

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Answer» Hi I recently increased my hard drive CAPACITY by adding another HD. (I have a HP computer with WIN XP) Can anyone tell me if it is a good idea to move the Program FILE directory form the old drive to the new one, instead of re-downloading all the programs. I appreciate your help hliorNo, this will not WORK. If you want to have your programs on a different HDD, you must uninstall them, and install them again to the new drive. Hope this helps.you can clone one drive to another with software like Norton Ghost. Quote from: contrex on June 01, 2007, 07:14:47 AM you can clone one drive to another with software like Norton Ghost. hlior, just so you understand, cloning means copying EVERYTHING, not just your Program File directory, to the other drive. And, then, you would need to make that HD your master drive in order to BOOT from it. As Calum said, your idea won't work. However, you might consider moving your My Documents folder, and any other folders you use to keep your data, to the second hard drive. That way, if you ever needed to format your boot drive and reinstall Windows, your documents and data would be safe on the second hard drive.Depending on the age of the original HDD cloning may not be a bad idea at all. If the old drive is more than say 3 years old than the new drive is likely faster... The new drive manufacturer has free tools for cloning that work rather well. All that's involved is installing the new drive booting to the manuf. CD that came with the drive and running the disk clone option. After finishing remove the old drive completely, install the new drive as master and re-boot. All your stuff will magically be there. Do a few re-boots to make sure all is good and then add the old drive as a slave and use Windows to format it. It can then be used as a storage drive...

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Hi

I recently increased my hard drive CAPACITY by adding another HD. (I have a HP computer with WIN XP)

Can anyone tell me if it is a good idea to move the Program FILE directory form the old drive to the new one, instead of re-downloading all the programs.

I appreciate your help

hliorNo, this will not WORK.
If you want to have your programs on a different HDD, you must uninstall them, and install them again to the new drive.
Hope this helps.you can clone one drive to another with software like Norton Ghost.
Quote from: contrex on June 01, 2007, 07:14:47 AM

you can clone one drive to another with software like Norton Ghost.

hlior, just so you understand, cloning means copying EVERYTHING, not just your Program File directory, to the other drive. And, then, you would need to make that HD your master drive in order to BOOT from it.

As Calum said, your idea won't work. However, you might consider moving your My Documents folder, and any other folders you use to keep your data, to the second hard drive. That way, if you ever needed to format your boot drive and reinstall Windows, your documents and data would be safe on the second hard drive.Depending on the age of the original HDD cloning may not be a bad idea at all. If the old drive is more than say 3 years old than the new drive is likely faster...
The new drive manufacturer has free tools for cloning that work rather well.
All that's involved is installing the new drive booting to the manuf. CD that came with the drive and running the disk clone option.
After finishing remove the old drive completely, install the new drive as master and re-boot. All your stuff will magically be there. Do a few re-boots to make sure all is good and then add the old drive as a slave and use Windows to format it. It can then be used as a storage drive...

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