GuardianOdin

Hey guys, I just got a new Seagate barracuda 250G Sata. I want to transfer my OS to this without having to reinstall. Any suggestions, tips, pointers? What program to use? Thanks

leimrod

I think a program called Acronis can do this for you.

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OCZedd

This is I think the best one to use:

http://www.acronis.com/download/

an51r

i have never tried acronis but norton ghost is good it worked well for me

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GuardianOdin

That program worked, I just used the trail version. I used Partition Magic 8 first and now I only 232 G worth of hard drive. Anyway of freeing up small bit that was lost?

OCZedd

232GB is the formatted size, you always lose 7% of the drive due to formatting and the fact that they use 1000bytes = 1Kbyte, rather than 1024.

GuardianOdin

That makes sense. I thought I goofed and added a small partition where that was. Thanks for the helps guys. Now I just need to add another hard drive=)