okay heres whats going on
i just ordered a graphics card (a GeForce 7600 GS for those who would like to know), and my friend rabidbunny said that i should get a new hd that runs at 7200 rpm instead of my durrent 5400. so i ordered up a wd caviar 250 gb, 7200 rpm, ata100, hd.
okay now to the question, my question is how should i go about copying my old hard drive to my new one when i get it? i would like to transfer xp over also so that it is running on the faster hd also, now along with not knowing how to do the transfer, my old hd is partitioned with a small portion holding the original copy of xp and is inaccesable to anything other than system restore.
so how should i go about getting xp onto the new hd as well as the other files i have.
any help is apreciated
P.S. i plan on using the old hd as a backup so i dont wanna get rid of it
here are my specs if anyone wants to know them
currently:
-AMD Athalon XP 2600+
-2x 512 kingston DDR SDRAM
-120 Gb 5400 rpm IDE100
-Integrated GeForce 4 MX /w 64 Mb shared video memory
with upgrades:
-AMD Athalon XP 2600+
-2x 512 kingston DDR SDRAM
-120 Gb 5400 rpm IDE100
-250 Gb 7200 rpm IDE100 WD Caviar
-EVGA GeForce 7600 GS (AGP)
i just ordered a graphics card (a GeForce 7600 GS for those who would like to know), and my friend rabidbunny said that i should get a new hd that runs at 7200 rpm instead of my durrent 5400. so i ordered up a wd caviar 250 gb, 7200 rpm, ata100, hd.
okay now to the question, my question is how should i go about copying my old hard drive to my new one when i get it? i would like to transfer xp over also so that it is running on the faster hd also, now along with not knowing how to do the transfer, my old hd is partitioned with a small portion holding the original copy of xp and is inaccesable to anything other than system restore.
so how should i go about getting xp onto the new hd as well as the other files i have.
any help is apreciated
P.S. i plan on using the old hd as a backup so i dont wanna get rid of it
here are my specs if anyone wants to know them
currently:
-AMD Athalon XP 2600+
-2x 512 kingston DDR SDRAM
-120 Gb 5400 rpm IDE100
-Integrated GeForce 4 MX /w 64 Mb shared video memory
with upgrades:
-AMD Athalon XP 2600+
-2x 512 kingston DDR SDRAM
-120 Gb 5400 rpm IDE100
-250 Gb 7200 rpm IDE100 WD Caviar
-EVGA GeForce 7600 GS (AGP)