switching a master drive w/o reinstalling os

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I have a new Hard Drive I am wanting to install however my problem is
this. When i got my comp as a gift it was a sony vaio walmart comp.
windows os was already on it and i dont have disks for it or for other
things i have on that i dont want to lose. The comp already has a
master C:/ and a slave D:/ drive. is there a way i can replace the C
drive with my new drive without having to reinstall or lose any data?
essentially just transferring the contents of the old master to the new
one?
thanks
 
rob21 said:
I have a new Hard Drive I am wanting to install however my problem is
this. When i got my comp as a gift it was a sony vaio walmart comp.
windows os was already on it and i dont have disks for it or for other
things i have on that i dont want to lose. The comp already has a
master C:/ and a slave D:/ drive. is there a way i can replace the C
drive with my new drive without having to reinstall or lose any data?
essentially just transferring the contents of the old master to the new
one?
thanks
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Many drive manufacturers include software with their disks to do what you
want. You could also purchase imaging/copy products like Ghost,
Acronis,etc.
 
thanks for the help so far now upon acrtually getting into matters
realised what sony had done when building the comp is take a singl
hard drive and partition it into a c and a d now using acronis it keep
trying to clone the partitions as well I dont want to partition th
new drive especially because the partitioning seems backwards to m
since the c partition is smaller by far. I just need the data from th
c(os and settings and all that jazz) to put onto my new drive so i ca
reformat and repartition the old drive so i have two unpartitione
drives. Any help here would be appreciated. I need a way to just ge
the data from the C to put onto the new HD. thanks all.
 
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