I bought a new hard drive,how do you transfer data?

Question

I bought a bigger HD (on sale) so now I want to install it.I have the original recovery discs that came with the computer (Windows Vista Premium).And I just created a complete backup on three discs.So do I just install the new HD,install the original recovery or use my latest discs?

What is this drag and drop thing?

Answer 1

if you bought the hard drive you can use it as a secondary hard drive,,meaning you can store all your media movies' etc..depending if you got a external hard drive..if you bought a internal it still will help if you just used your new hard drive as a secondary

Answer 2

Why do you need to recover?  Just put the new hard drive in the case, plug it all in and boot Vista.  It will see the new drive, ask if you want to format it and voila! you have a new drive/partition in your computer (probably will be the D: drive).

Keep all the system stuff on the C: drive and move all your data across to the new drive.

Answer 3

connect bot hard drive in the system, Check wheter both are connected & accessable

Then copy all the datas and paste into the other harddirve

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Answer 4

that will work

hold the control key down select the file then edit copy and then paste to the drive and folder you want