Can I swap out my WD Green 1TB C: drive with a 250GB VelociRaptor drive and is there a program to copy all my files to new drive?
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sure hope you have not used more on the drive the terrabyte drive that is usuallly its customarry to replace with same size drive or larger for that very reason but load in the4 new drive and and the old make secondary you can send all to the new drive or drag and drop in new drive
1972509
No. Best to move everything you need to a third drive and install your new drive clean. Then move anything you need back. Anything that has to do with the operating system would have to be reinstalled on the new drive. Ie programs, the operating system itself, etc. you can use program specific saved files once the program is reinstalled.
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It is possible... IF you can shrink your current system partition to under 250 GB. You can then use any partition backup software (Macrium, Acronis, etc) to clone your old drive. Assuming you are using Windows, Open Computer Management, under Storage select Disk Management. Wait for drives to load. Find your system drive (typically Disk0) and right click on the windows partition and select Shrink Volume. Your C: volume as well as the hidden system partition cannot total more than the available space on the destination HDD. Then use your disk cloning software. example link provided.http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50081.aspx It is possible... IF you can shrink your current system partition to under 250 GB. You can then use any partition backup software (Macrium, Acronis, etc) to clone your old drive. Assuming you are using Windows, Open Computer Management, under Storage select Disk Management. Wait for drives to load. Find your system drive (typically Disk0) and right click on the windows partition and select Shrink Volume. Your C: volume as well as the hidden system partition cannot total more than the available space on the destination HDD. Then use your disk cloning software. example link... » Read More It is possible... IF you can shrink your current system partition to under 250 GB. You can then use any partition backup software (Macrium, Acronis, etc) to clone your old drive. Assuming you are using Windows, Open Computer Management, under Storage select Disk Management. Wait for drives to load. Find your system drive (typically Disk0) and right click on the windows partition and select Shrink Volume. Your C: volume as well as the hidden system partition cannot total more than the available space on the destination HDD. Then use your disk cloning software. example link provided.http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50081.aspx « Show Less
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Sort of... you can swap it out yes.... if you just want to copy data you can just hook both up and copy the data using Windows. If you want to copy over programs or an operating system its possible but its much more complex and it sounds like you would need assistance from someone with a deeper computer background.
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Yes, as long as your not transferring more then 230gig to the new drive. As far as transferring all your info they make a bunch of cloning software. BUT! I highly recommend just reinstall everything from scratch and only transferring what you need from your old to new drive. It will make it run a lot smoother and cleaner.
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U can use a cloning software... I use Acronis backup... or if u r doing a clean install u will need ur original disks and take out ur old drive and put that one in and run the install of ur OS
1220871
Doable, but stock drive probably has stuff you'd want to mirror to the replacement drive for that to work correctly.
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@Book WitchI should think that it is. You may be able to use Western Digital's software included on the drive to aid you in your backup. If, however, you do not want to use their software, preferring to use another backup program, it is easy to delete the WD software (the easiest way to delete all of it is to merely reformat the drive in NTFS format).
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Yes you can. I have couple of 1tb from Seagate, couple of 2 tb from both Seagate and western digital and a 5 tb from segate. All worked fine with existing data no issues except the 5tb as I had to change the file allocation type to be recognized.
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If you pre purchase the 16TB it comes with Reds and you cant change that. But if you buy the disk less version you can put any drive in their compatibility list on WDs site. Some current Greens are on there, but they are unable to test backward with older Greens that are no longer manufactured. (but may still work) I am using 2 not on their list and they work fine.
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If the reason you are making the change from the 1TB drive is to go to solid state, you should have no problem making the change to the 500 GB SSD. I bought the 500 SSD to hold only my operating system and the files that go with the default C drive. All programs and other files go to a different drive or drives. Hope this helps.
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Coincidentally, my WD Caviar Green 2TB HDD with the same PCB failed about 3 weeks ago and am also looking for a replacement with the same PCB# as I need to swap to grab the data.
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Not really. You would have to format the existing drives when you added the new ones. What you're describing *might* be possible if you used the JBOD (just a bunch of disks) configuration, but not for any RAID. For all their RAID configs, you have to choose the number and size of disks at creation, and you can't change it without reformatting.
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Yes. Plug in to a USB port. The driver will load. Open your file manager and move your files to the new drive.
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I don't have any experience with either of these programs, but being that it is solid state and 1Tb you should not have any storage problems. Sorry I could not be of more help.
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That's what I am using right now. Replace the rotating dasd with solid state. Wish I could do that on my desktop. I am not sure what that PC model is, but it will work. You must have a way to copy ALL data from old drive C:. I used some purchased utility to help. To be done only if you know what you are doing.
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No, you just need a cloning software to have an exact image of your current Acer drive. its like making an exact copy and presto you just replace it and start! No new licensing etc. There is Norton ghost, Acronis true image or the free DriveImage XML's @ http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
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I'm sorry. I don't know. I had a drive cloned *for* me. I suggest you contact Seagate. They're awesome.
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Yes, everything would be copied ... as long as the drive you are copying to is the same size or larger than your original
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It is recommended but you can use the free clone software the WD offers to clone OS to new hard drive. Just keep in mind it is only 115 GB at first you can use
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you will need to reformat the replacement drive and the data that is on your existing drive will not be automatically transferred to the new drive. I would recommend that you go to the Sony PS support website for more in depth support / answers at - https://support.us.playstation.com/