what i would feel is, you don't need any software at all. all the user files can be transferred to DVDs and the main HDD freed. Perhaps you have the CD /DVD writable CD drive.Along with it comes the NERO or some other software as you know.My wifes PC HD is out of space and keeps crashing. So I decided to go get a new larger HD, but what I need help with is this; what SW do I need to buy so I can just transfer her old HD goop to a new HD with no reinstall? I do not want to lose any data from the old drive, just want to mirror it onto a new drive and have her PC up and running as though nothing has changed.
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what i would feel is, you don't need any software at all. all the user files can be transferred to DVDs and the main HDD freed. Perhaps you have the CD /DVD writable CD drive.Along with it comes the NERO or some other software as you know.
Then comes the crashing part of it. You would obviously have a CD of the OS that is used in the PC. You may have to repair the OS using this Master CD. Before that, perhaps it would be better to run once a good and updated Virus and Worm cleaner software. I feel, Mc-Afee is working fine. Off late Kaspersky anti-virus software also is good at cleaning the worms and others. You can run these two software and then see whether the PC could stop crashing!!
My wifes PC HD is out of space and keeps crashing. So I decided to go get a new larger HD, but what I need help with is this; what SW do I need to buy so I can just transfer her old HD goop to a new HD with no reinstall? I do not want to lose any data from the old drive, just want to mirror it onto a new drive and have her PC up and running as though nothing has changed.
Thanks
Wow torben Ya kinda went over my head... My wifes PC has about 1 gig left on the system drive. She partitioned the drive into two halves, one for programs and one for system files, but I bought her a Zune device and she all but crammed her system drive. I tried to remove all the Zune stuff, but not sure if I got it all, I tried to use a piechart program to view drive usage but it crashes. Her drive has maybe a gig left and I suspect most of it is bad blocks.
Buy a new drive and install a OS fresh on the new hard drive, if the machine is as bad off as you're saying transferring the existing OS over is going to be more than a little annoying. It'll give you a chance to make sure all the system drivers and software is up to date and you can copy all the data you need from the 2nd hard drive. Just hook the new drive up as master and the old one up as slave, then you can copy all your data off that once you get the OS installed.
Buy a new drive and install a OS fresh on the new hard drive, if the machine is as bad off as you're saying transferring the existing OS over is going to be more than a little annoying. It'll give you a chance to make sure all the system drivers and software is up to date and you can copy all the data you need from the 2nd hard drive. Just hook the new drive up as master and the old one up as slave, then you can copy all your data off that once you get the OS installed.
hi SC,
Just to add to your good advice.
Mike, get a free download of a 'Driver Grabber' program.
Run it and it will scan and store a copy of all the PC's drivers in a folder, copy the folder to a CD.
When you reinstall the OS, copy the CD to the new HD, you can then direct the peripheral driver requests to that HD folder.
This method is recommended if you have an older PC and you cant find the original driver CD's.. also much quicker.
Also prebackup any Data from the old HD to a USB stick DVD/CD, you should do this anyway in a regular routine.
Well I already tried changing the virtual drive off the system disk. I also ran chkdsk and defrag on the disk. This helped for awhile but the BSOD's started happening again a month later. I wonder if it is a RAM issue as the last BSOD was a Stop Code 50 with win32k.sys.
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