Need Computer Help...

[TURBOXR]

Hi all. Googled for help but cant find anything so thought id ask here again because you all helped me out last time.

My computer kept giving me a blue screen of death because of a hardware fault in my second (non system) hard disk. So ive pulled it out and replaced it with another one. Ive got her in and formatted and its all working fine now.

Just asking, how do I set it up so I can just move files to the new drive from the system one rather than it automatically copying them. So I dont keep having to copying everything to it then deleting the originals on the system drive.

Hope that makes sense?

Edit: Oh and im running XP

Edited 10/05/08 07:38 AM by TURBOXR

[tab]

Assuming you're using windows explorer, select the files then right-click, hold, and drag to the destination. When you release the mouse button a small context menu will pop up, then select "move" rather than the default "copy"

I think that's what you are asking about :banghead:

[smicky]

turboxr,

mate - best thing when playing with HDD's is to get urself a external HDD caddy... (USB housing)... should cost you anymore then about 50$....

Once you have that, connect the 2nd hdd up in the caddy and plug it into your USB port, and the drive should show up as a external hdd... (removable just like a flash driver, usb drive)...

if not hook the drive up as a secondary hdd on your IDE cable or sata cable, which ever you are running inside your casing... (assuming you have a desktop pc, if not then run the hdd as above external on the Notebook)...

the easiest way to keep the 'new' image/os built on the new hdd and keep move your files over is simply keep both HDD's running inside your system at once.. it isnt a bad way to keep your files protected and good location to back stuff up on...

If you want to move it all over/back from your old hdd to the new one simply open the drive by double clicking on the drive inside my computer.... click within the window with the folders are displayed and drag the mouse highlighting all the folders, right click on copy then on the new location/hdd, right click and paste...

Note this may not work on all files and may stop due to certain forms of files - read only, currently accessed files (open) etc...

Another way is to use an old dos command - xcopy... if you access your command prompt and type in 'xcopy/?' help on this item will be displayed, if u get a return or error advising this is can not be found, it may be a item contained in a directory with has not been mapped... explain if needed....

if u are wanting to do a 'image' swap/copy then consider using something like symantic ghost... keep in mind if u have not used this before then you might want to get some help from someone that has done this before...

you can also look at using the 'copy' command from the command prompt also with the /a/s *.* extention and wildcard command...

There is many different way to do this, however without being sure of what you want to achieve and why, I can only point u in a few directions I believe you might want to go...

Let me know if this is what you are after, or please explain what you are trying to do exactly and why... I then might be able to help further...

[AzMahoony]

Stop looking at porn

/New computer

[TURBOXR]

Thanks for the input lads.

Thanks for the right click lesson... I didnt know that.

What im pretty much talking about is that say for example there is a document on the desktop, I want to be able simply click and drag it to the my documents folder which is on my new hdd (D:) and have it move rather than copy, same as it does on the C:. Is that possible or do I have to right click and select move forever?

Not looking at internet porn is obviously not an option.

[SubJimbo]

Have you transfered all of the data from your old HDD to your new one? Just checking. If you havnt, Google search for a operating system called Knoppix. Burn it to a CD, Put in your HDD's, and the Live Distro will boot up, allowing you to transfer your folders to your existing HDD.

What you could do is set up a "Transfer" folder on your desktop, Put in all the files you want to move into your D:\ Drive in this folder, and create a batch file that uses xcopy to move everything inside that folder into your D:\ Drive.

I have some batch files that do a similar thing on my other PC, They copy everything from one PC on my network to the other, Ill paste the code in here after school.

Cheers,

James