Replacing Hard Drive

[bdowns]

Have a couple of questions for the anyone in the group. Found out I had a
bad spot on my hard drive that would not allow me to boot up. Had that
fixed, but was told when you get a bad spot, u will begin to had problems
with the hard drive. Well now I want to replace my 80GB with a 120GB
Western Digital HD. First question:
Does the new HD come with software that will allow me to copy everything on
my "old" HD to the "new" HD to make it my bootable HD? And once I install
my new HD, should I take the old HD out or can it be used for extra storage,
even though it had that bad spot on it? Thanks in advance.

 

[Alvin Brown]

Hello

Yes most haddrives come with software that will allow you
to do that, also you can use Norton's Ghost, Also you can
use the old drive as a backup if you like too. Most important
thing to remember backup your data before doing anything
just a safe way to go

Alvin

 

[Norm]

If it was my 80 gb disk, that's developed a bad spot, I would toss it and I
sure wouldn't use it for backup. Disks are so cheap these days it's just
not worth the risk. The last drive I purchased was a WD 120gb and I got it
for $60 from Staples after rebates, that's cheap.