Hi guys.
I had two old HDDs in my system (about 5-6 years old) and just replaced the one I use for saving backups of stuff with a new 3 TB one because it was acting funny and getting old. Lo and behold as soon as I did that my main drive (which is slightly newer) started to get an error saying my hard disk is experiencing errors and I should back up my drive.
Unfortunately I have a LOT of stuff on my system that is painful to install and customize correctly because I use it for game development. So I have direct SDK + compiler, OGRE, and even worse Maya (which is just now properly customized from the LAST time I had to reinstall windows).
Is there any way on earth to get everything over to the other disk without screwing everything up? I was thinking perhaps to install windows vista on there, then to copy over the registry and other files (though I am not sure everything that will be invovled, since it keeps changing with every windows version). Unfortunately I don't have the luxury of time OR money, so I can't spend any money at all to get any extra software. I also want to be ABSOLUTELY SURE I do not lose any of the data I have already as it would be absolutely life ruining disaster.
So is there any guide out there to help accomplish all this?
I had two old HDDs in my system (about 5-6 years old) and just replaced the one I use for saving backups of stuff with a new 3 TB one because it was acting funny and getting old. Lo and behold as soon as I did that my main drive (which is slightly newer) started to get an error saying my hard disk is experiencing errors and I should back up my drive.
Unfortunately I have a LOT of stuff on my system that is painful to install and customize correctly because I use it for game development. So I have direct SDK + compiler, OGRE, and even worse Maya (which is just now properly customized from the LAST time I had to reinstall windows).
Is there any way on earth to get everything over to the other disk without screwing everything up? I was thinking perhaps to install windows vista on there, then to copy over the registry and other files (though I am not sure everything that will be invovled, since it keeps changing with every windows version). Unfortunately I don't have the luxury of time OR money, so I can't spend any money at all to get any extra software. I also want to be ABSOLUTELY SURE I do not lose any of the data I have already as it would be absolutely life ruining disaster.
So is there any guide out there to help accomplish all this?
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