Hard Drives

[Brett Luzader]

I have a Presario 5310US using XP Home edition. I would like to add a bigger hard hrive and was wonder what is the easiest way to do this. Can I transfer all my files to wht is now the C drive, move it to the D drive slot and then add a new hard drive in the old c slot and then transfer the old c files back? Just guessing. Help I'm running out of space on my hard drive.

[Vincent Fleming]

In a nutshell - no.

But... there's software available to help you do just what you want to do... let's see if I can remember what it was called...

Partition Magic

...and there was a more limited version of the software, but it only allows you to copy a drive for upgrade purposes - just what you want to do - unfortunately, I can;t remember the name of that one... it's by the same authors, so find Partition Magic, and it should be there too.

Good luck,

Vince

[Paul R. Dittrich]

I believe that DriveCopy or DriveImage are the two software packages by Powerquest that Bruce was probably thinking of.
Both good products.

HTH,
Paul

[Paul R. Dittrich]

"Bruce" - Sheesh! Sorry, VINCENT.
(too many hours, too little coffee)