Bit of a computer techie question

[Ken_A]

C drive is getting full again.

I put in a new F drive (100Mb) and it is full, now my c drive is has <300 megs left of its 80Gb.

I dont want to add another hard drive as most stuff points to my C drive and its to much hassle to change these.

Can I remove my C drive and have an EXACT copy added to a new large (1Tb?) hard drive?

 

[brendy]

ken, have a looksie at acronis true image home edition. it can clone drives perfectly.

 

[RGuk]

As brendy says.....acronis will do this. Trouble is whether to spend your £30 on true image or disk director or migrate easy!

t.b.h. If your original HD was 80 gb and you added another 100gb, one wonders what you are playing at.....

Clearly, all program files need to be stored on the main drive (C but anything else can live quite happily on an external drive.

Unless you are a pro video editor, there is not much chance you have more files than me. Mine are various Music files, midis, wavs, sequenced, score, etc. and in total on my 3 computers are over 700GB. The important stuff is stored on a server and the rest on portable drives.

My recent acquisition is a Maxtor 500GB desktop drive. Most of my colleagues use this type of drive and then copy it to our server.

Why go to the trouble of installing a new "mother" Hard Drive......it can be done, but I don't see the advantage myself....

what does brendy think?

 

[brendy]

Dave you are right, keeping all programs on the c: will save a lot of hassle. Here is the scenario as I see it,
current drive is a piddly standard 80gb drive which can be cloned directly onto the 1tb disc, keep the second large drive as it may have installed software on the c: that points to these folders for handiness. Now, I think if you forsee yourself gathering more than 500gb of data then its worth backing up, invest in another identical drive and use acronis to backup onto it, acronis will compress files where it can and will mean you could potentially keep all of your drives backed up onto one external drive.
Well worth it if it was me.

 

[brendy]

Dave, did you get the one mentioned in a previous thread? classic or pro.