New Harddrive Help

poliish

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Dec 2, 2013
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Hi
I recently bought a new hard drive to replace my old hard drive (the old holds only data like programs and games no boot files or anything). My question is how do I go about transferring all my data to my new hard drive from the old one? Is it as easy and just copying and pasting it over? I also would like to know if there are anyways that I'll be able to keep all my installed programs and not have to reinstall them again?