New Hard Drive...best way to transfer info ???

Hello all,

I have a new Hard Drive coming in from Dell on Thursday and need to back up
everything on my current hard drive (so I don't lose any data).

What is the best way to do this? I have a DVD+RW (DVD Burner) and a CD
burner. My Operating System is XP Home. I have a lot of data I need to keep.
it could take up to 10 DVD's (4.3 GB each) of data.

Should I just copy all this data to DVD's using my DVD burner or would it be
better to use one of the backup programs on the market?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If I do it manually, I'll need to make sure I copy EVERYTHING I need. That
worries me a little as I'd hate to forget something and then have it gone
forever.

Thanks...

rball wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a new Hard Drive coming in from Dell on Thursday and need to
> back up everything on my current hard drive (so I don't lose any
> data).
>
> What is the best way to do this? I have a DVD+RW (DVD Burner) and a CD
> burner. My Operating System is XP Home. I have a lot of data I need
> to keep. it could take up to 10 DVD's (4.3 GB each) of data.
>
> Should I just copy all this data to DVD's using my DVD burner or
> would it be better to use one of the backup programs on the market?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> If I do it manually, I'll need to make sure I copy EVERYTHING I need.
> That worries me a little as I'd hate to forget something and then
> have it gone forever.

When the new HDD arrives install it as primary master and your old drive on
whatever IDE port you have left (adjust jumpers accordingly). Install XP and
then just copy files over from one HDD to the other.
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:09:45 GMT Letting slip the dogs of war "rball"
<newtothis@nospam.com> wrote :

>Hello all,
>
>I have a new Hard Drive coming in from Dell on Thursday and need to back up
>everything on my current hard drive (so I don't lose any data).
>
>What is the best way to do this? I have a DVD+RW (DVD Burner) and a CD
>burner. My Operating System is XP Home. I have a lot of data I need to keep.
>it could take up to 10 DVD's (4.3 GB each) of data.
>
>Should I just copy all this data to DVD's using my DVD burner or would it be
>better to use one of the backup programs on the market?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>If I do it manually, I'll need to make sure I copy EVERYTHING I need. That
>worries me a little as I'd hate to forget something and then have it gone
>forever.
>
>Thanks...
>
http://www.windows-help.net/features/copy-hd.html

HTH



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Shep© wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:09:45 GMT Letting slip the dogs of war "rball"
> <newtothis@nospam.com> wrote :
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a new Hard Drive coming in from Dell on Thursday and need to
>> back up everything on my current hard drive (so I don't lose any
>> data).
>>
>> What is the best way to do this? I have a DVD+RW (DVD Burner) and a
>> CD burner. My Operating System is XP Home. I have a lot of data I
>> need to keep. it could take up to 10 DVD's (4.3 GB each) of data.
>>
>> Should I just copy all this data to DVD's using my DVD burner or
>> would it be better to use one of the backup programs on the market?
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> If I do it manually, I'll need to make sure I copy EVERYTHING I
>> need. That worries me a little as I'd hate to forget something and
>> then have it gone forever.
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
> http://www.windows-help.net/features/copy-hd.html
>
> HTH

There's one problem with that. If Dell do things in the US as they do in the
UK, he won't be given the opportunity. I've had to replace hard drives in
two systems, and the courier (usually just a bloke in a car) on both
occasions, had been instructed not to hand over the new drive, until I'd
signed over the old. Fortunately, in both cases, this didn't matter as the
drives were most definitely dead ('click of death' was most evident), but
the OP has things he doesn't wish to lose, so DVDs are probably the way to
go.