Transfering to larger hard drive

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leor77

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Hi all...

Apologies in advance becase Im sure this has been covered multiple times already here but Im a new member and getting used to the forum format.

Anyways...

I bought a Dell dimension 2400 system a while back, and apparently it does not support two hard drives. Currently I have a 40 GB drive and want to get a 250 GB one. How can I transfer the data from the old to new Hard drive? CD burner, flash drive?

I currently dont have a computer in the house with dual hard drive capabilities so i cant do the work on another computer.

Would appreciate suggestions of a link to another thread which covers this topic.

Thanks.
 
I'd say burn all your files to disk and reinstall windows on the 250, but if you unplug a cd drive, you can probably attach the hard drive there, but with horrible speeds, but it's possible I think
 
you have to bios how to find the hdd.

press del or f2 and you will enter the bios menu, go to drive sequence and check that your hdd is there.
 
Purchase your 250gb hd either pata or sata interface, buy a external enclosure with EZ gig II software, ensure that the enclosure conforms to Pata
or sata that you purchased with your hd. Install the hd into the enclosure. Boot with the EZ gig II in cd rom, clone your existing drive (source to target),
this will clone everything (including a boot drive) to your 250gb. Open your computer de-install the existing hd and install the 250gb. If its the same type has the former hd use the same connections. If the new drive is a different i.e sata vice pata then you will have some BIOS changes prior to boot.
 
Dell is bad for using IDE cables with only a master connection and no slave. If this is the problem just buy a ribbon cable with a master and slave connection. They are very inexpensive.
 
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