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Switching out Hard Drives
Krug
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I recently bought a new hard drive for my computer, and I wanted to transfer all of my data over to the new one, but I've been running into some issues remembering how to do it.
The new drive is a 640GB WD Caviar Blue, and the old one is also Western Digital.
I first plugged in the new drive and formatted it and installed my OS, but now I can't recall how I get the data from the old to the new. I seem to think that I need to somehow set the old drive up as the master and the new one as a slave, and that to do so I would use a jumper to cross two of the pins on the back of the drive, but I don't have a jumper(none came with the drive), nor do I know where to get one, nor the configuration I'd use if I did have one.
Also, once I do get a jumper or two, what's the best way to transfer my crap?
The new drive is a 640GB WD Caviar Blue, and the old one is also Western Digital.
I first plugged in the new drive and formatted it and installed my OS, but now I can't recall how I get the data from the old to the new. I seem to think that I need to somehow set the old drive up as the master and the new one as a slave, and that to do so I would use a jumper to cross two of the pins on the back of the drive, but I don't have a jumper(none came with the drive), nor do I know where to get one, nor the configuration I'd use if I did have one.
Also, once I do get a jumper or two, what's the best way to transfer my crap?
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