Hard drive copying

[gweng]

So I recently bought two new sata hard drives that I plan to link in raid for data security, but before I do that, I need to move everything from my old hard drive to my new sata ones. The new hard drives are like 3 times the size of the old ones, so size is not an issue.

Normally, I would just reinstall my operating system, but I don't actually have any install disks. Besides the fact that I don't know how (or if its even possible) to copy the hard drives, I partitioned my old hard drive and I need to get rid of that. Basically, I want to take the C: and D: from my old hard drive and make a new system disk with just C: overall.

If anyone knows how to do this, any help would be greatly appreciated.
(I've been trying to do this for weeks and havent had any luck yet.)

 

[rapwaydown]

So I recently bought two new sata hard drives that I plan to link in raid for data security, but before I do that, I need to move everything from my old hard drive to my new sata ones. The new hard drives are like 3 times the size of the old ones, so size is not an issue.

Normally, I would just reinstall my operating system, but I don't actually have any install disks. Besides the fact that I don't know how (or if its even possible) to copy the hard drives, I partitioned my old hard drive and I need to get rid of that. Basically, I want to take the C: and D: from my old hard drive and make a new system disk with just C: overall.

If anyone knows how to do this, any help would be greatly appreciated.
(I've been trying to do this for weeks and havent had any luck yet.)

can you just connect the two drive to your computer, and drag and drop the file you want from the old to the new, hope it help.

 

[gweng]

that would allow me to copy all of the files over, but it wouldnt re-create the registry, so i wouldnt be able to use it as my system disk. thanks though.