Need A Little help.

Hey guys, I just recently grabbed a second hard drive to run the OS only off of. I got a 120gb 7200 rpm drive for 15 bucks, so I figured it would hold me over until I can SSD and buy a 1tb. Anyways. I don't want to lose any of my programs or anything, so i need so help.

I want the new 120 gb HDD to be the os and programs, but it is currently installed in my 2nd bay as F: Can I just shut down, use my recovery disc to install my os on my new drive? If not, can someone please tell me how I can do this.

I would also like to get the 2 partitions of my c/d drive merged without losing the data if this is possible.

 

If you boot with the recovery/windows 7 disc it should bring you to the partition manager when you are selecting the drive you want to install a factory installation of windows on.

Simply format the F: partition that has windows on and then select the new HDD to install the new operating system on. If you want to keep certain items then shift them onto a separate partition on your 2nd HDD and that wont be touched.

 

Thanks buddy. I appreciate it.

 

No problem, ill be up for a few if you have any problems but its pretty straight forward think you will sort it!

 

Also, on the C and D drives, you can merge them together, but one of them will have to be wiped so the other can take over its space

I'd suggest copying data from one part to the other then using Windows Disk Management to expand the C over the D, but you'll need to delete the D partition.

 

Thanks JP. I am going to do it all tonite. I am going to transfer all 400 gb worth of stuff to my external, then whip it completly, then transfer back. Should be fun right?