Upgrading to a new, larger, internal HDD. Not paying $300+ for transfer/partition. Help?
Hello!
So for some time now my computer has had a notification popping up in the lower portion of my screen. "Low Disk Space Recovery D:". I have a 250GB HDD, and when I go to the "My Computer" location it shows the C: Drive is 222GB and the Recovery is 10MB (Thats right...MB). So I am sick of dealing with the issue, and the default partition program in the Windows 7 OS wont let me extend the Recovery D: and apparently that is where my backups are going.
I am going to buy a 1TB HDD and want to transfer EVERYTHING from my current HDD to the new HDD but Best Buy says itll take 6-8 days and be around $299 before tax.
How can I do this without the help of the "Fail Squad"?
Note: I understand I need to have some program to transfer the data and I must install the new HDD as a slave drive. Does anybody have a link or a guide to show me step by step what I need to do in order to successfully install, transfer, and use the new HDD and then remove the old one? I dont want anything on the old HDD.
Also, should my restore points be going to Recovery D:? Or should I find out where they are being saved?
Thanks!
Hello!
So for some time now my computer has had a notification popping up in the lower portion of my screen. "Low Disk Space Recovery D:". I have a 250GB HDD, and when I go to the "My Computer" location it shows the C: Drive is 222GB and the Recovery is 10MB (Thats right...MB). So I am sick of dealing with the issue, and the default partition program in the Windows 7 OS wont let me extend the Recovery D: and apparently that is where my backups are going.
I am going to buy a 1TB HDD and want to transfer EVERYTHING from my current HDD to the new HDD but Best Buy says itll take 6-8 days and be around $299 before tax.
How can I do this without the help of the "Fail Squad"?
Note: I understand I need to have some program to transfer the data and I must install the new HDD as a slave drive. Does anybody have a link or a guide to show me step by step what I need to do in order to successfully install, transfer, and use the new HDD and then remove the old one? I dont want anything on the old HDD.
Also, should my restore points be going to Recovery D:? Or should I find out where they are being saved?
Thanks!