New Hard Drive

[r1zeek]

Hi
Hope someone can help me here
I have decided to buy an extra hard drive, to keep windows and other system programs on a seperate disc so I don't loose all my games if I format my machine. Now I have a single 120 Gb drive, which came with my machine. I have got my computer to a sweet spot and I don't want to loose all the data on it. I'm going to buy a 40 - 80 gb hard disk to have windows and some other stuff on. I want to transfer windows to the new drive, without re installing, is that possible?
Cheers in advance for any help

[LayZeh]

Yes, use a program called Norton Ghost to transfer the existing operating system onto the new drive.

As for a suggestion on what drive you should buy i'd go with a Samsung of some kind, they're one of the fastest and very quiet aswell.

[Steve]

As a note, if you put programs and games on the second drive and format the first, reinstalling windows (at some point in the future) you may still lose some game data. For example Halo save games are kept in your user folder in C:\Documents and Settings\ and the registy is of course on the C:\ drive, which many programs use.

[Howard]

Yes 80% of program files won't run when you try to on a new Windows install. Sorry

[LayZeh]

Unless you ghost the partition with all your games/programs installed and create two partitions on your new drive and ghost both your operating system and games/programs over...

[unrealrocks]

I would recommend the Samsung drives, I bought one of there top models about a month ago. Apart from it dragging huge amounts of power (with lots of HDDs it puts my Enermax 480 over the edge). Its a very quiet drive ... and with the ATA133 version I manage faster benchmarks than most SATA users (1502 PCMarks HDD for anyone that wants to know - thats the 120Gb model).

[NenMaster]

yea get a samsung hdd there ultra quiet, DO NOT GET A MAXTOR there loud!

also ghost should be able to do what u need
here http://ghost.radified.com/ excellent how to and all the info u need.