Hard Drive Upgrade

[asanthadenz]

ok ill be upgrading my HDD this week, i wanna if theres a way of transfering directly frm ur Old HDD to ur New HDD if both HDD's are plugged into ur PC. ??? noob

and also which of either these 2 should i upgrade to
CHEAP

Samsung 40GB IDE UDMA/100 5400rpm

or

Western Digital WD400EB 40GB ATA/100 5400 rpm

or

Seagate 40Gb ATA100 5400rpm

and is it recomended to transfer ur old OS and files frm ur old HDD to ur new one, or Fresh install windows again.

[GooGlo]

Firstly, whats your current drive?

Second, DONT BUY THE 5400 RPM DRIVES. Get the 7200rpm equivilent, trust me, you do notice the difference and you should spend the extra $20 or whatever it is.

A fresh install of 2k is recommended, 9x is too old, XP is bloated sh1tware.

[swiftynz]

yea definately get a 7200rpm. not only for speed, but for the quality of the components!
trust us, it IS worth the extra cost (which imho is quite minimal).

to transfer your OS and files to the new hdd use a program like norton ghost. powerquest also have a proggy called drive image and i believe even partition magic has a basic copying tool.

[asanthadenz]

currently using a Crappy old Quantum 15.2gb HDD

iv checked out reviews on the Western Digital 5400rpm HDD and it beat some of the 7200 drives in the benches :D, even the reviewers were quite suprise. :eek:

[Sydog]

It's not worth the bother transfering all your old windows install onto your new hdd, just plug the 40gb in as primary and 15gb as secondary, install windows on 40gb and then transfer your needed files from the 15gb to your 40gb

[asanthadenz]

tx guys ill jst do tht, keep the neccesary files in the 15gb and Fresh Install XP in my new 40gig,

btw have any of guys dealt with DragonPc, how fast is their courier service, Overnight, 2 days ??