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[feel free to lock] Nevermind, Ima change my HD with a Chinese Gold Farm.
Aldo
Hippo HoorayRegistered User regular
Hippo HoorayRegistered User regular
First off: I'm an idiot, I'm tired and I feel bad. I have already tried a lot, but it all failed*.
Basically: I have a 75GB HDD that's become too small for my gaming needs. So I figured I'd unplug it, and run everything from my 1.5TB HDD. The basic idea would be simple: make partition on disk, back-up the whole of C:/ and place it on partition. ??? Profit!
So could someone point me to the right freeware and describe exactly what I should copy/paste to make Windows skip over to the new partition without going tits up?
Trying to look up internet guides has only confused me further. There's so many options and nearly everything is written with the idea that you replace one HDD and suggest you just leave everything on your old one, make it ride in Slave and plug in the new [assumed better] on as Master. Yes, thanks for that internet. Not helping.
As you can figure out I'm not very good with computers, I just happen to be in the possession of reading skills and the capability to make checklists. For most tech stuff this is more than enough. If you think this takes far too much trial and error or knowledge for someone like me to do on an afternoon, please let me know.
*I have no idea if this is of use to you, but it's comedic.
Basically: I have a 75GB HDD that's become too small for my gaming needs. So I figured I'd unplug it, and run everything from my 1.5TB HDD. The basic idea would be simple: make partition on disk, back-up the whole of C:/ and place it on partition. ??? Profit!
So could someone point me to the right freeware and describe exactly what I should copy/paste to make Windows skip over to the new partition without going tits up?
Trying to look up internet guides has only confused me further. There's so many options and nearly everything is written with the idea that you replace one HDD and suggest you just leave everything on your old one, make it ride in Slave and plug in the new [assumed better] on as Master. Yes, thanks for that internet. Not helping.
As you can figure out I'm not very good with computers, I just happen to be in the possession of reading skills and the capability to make checklists. For most tech stuff this is more than enough. If you think this takes far too much trial and error or knowledge for someone like me to do on an afternoon, please let me know.
*I have no idea if this is of use to you, but it's comedic.
Here is what I did:
used Acronis to back-up C:/ and made a bootable disk.
set up a partition on big HDD
unplugged old small HDD
tried putting the whole back up to that partition
failed
simply installed Windows Vista 32 bit figuring I'd just reinstall everything I needed.
Now I've got Windows installed and it's running OK. Only with a very annoying problem: it doesn't have a driver for my ethernet, so I do not have internet. Wireless is not an option.
Ideally I'd still like to run the back-up I made and go from there. The problem is that I have no idea how to go about this. An added problem is that the partition I made got renamed to
and the main disk is called C: according to Acronis, while Windows has them listed the other way around.
So I gave up on all that. Plugged my old HDD back in. Reformatted my partition and then deleted it again making my whole T1.5 HDD whole again.
used Acronis to back-up C:/ and made a bootable disk.
set up a partition on big HDD
unplugged old small HDD
tried putting the whole back up to that partition
failed
simply installed Windows Vista 32 bit figuring I'd just reinstall everything I needed.
Now I've got Windows installed and it's running OK. Only with a very annoying problem: it doesn't have a driver for my ethernet, so I do not have internet. Wireless is not an option.
Ideally I'd still like to run the back-up I made and go from there. The problem is that I have no idea how to go about this. An added problem is that the partition I made got renamed to
and the main disk is called C: according to Acronis, while Windows has them listed the other way around.So I gave up on all that. Plugged my old HDD back in. Reformatted my partition and then deleted it again making my whole T1.5 HDD whole again.
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You should be able to just plug in both hard drives, run a disk-partition thing like Acronis from the small one, ask it to partition the large one, and ask it to copy the small one to a partition on the large one.
I don't think the backup/bootable disk part is actually necessary.
Also, how in the hell does any windows install not have ethernet drivers? Was Vista cursed or something?
Well gparted and clonezilla run outside of windows, they work on your drive raw.
So once all is said and done, when you get back into windows your drive will be 1.5 TB will be your C drive, assuming you unplugged your other drive.
Do you want me to get more in debt on how to use them?
I'd like a bit more in depth how-to.