Replacing a hard drive?

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The Artist formerly known as Turbo84
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The hard drive on our desktop computer is starting to get a little louder and I'm worrying about it completely failing some day. How hard is it to replace it? I've got the contents backed up on a 1TB portable hard drive, but I'm unclear how the computer retrieves the information if the new hd is blank. The portable memory works well when automatically copying the contents of the present hard drive, but I'm unclear if it will automatically boot up and download/restore a new hd.

Thanks,
Mike
 
I read your note to Linda here, and even with her knowledge, she recommends finding a GOOD computer shop before it crashes entirely, and maybe get a new HD installed, and be sure to bring your CD of the OS on it....you know, Windows whatever....need the install key too....

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By far the method of least grief is to use Acronis Trueimage
[ame]http://www.amazon.com/Acronis-TI-16-DV-RT-W-EN-True-Image-2013/dp/B0095C25Y8[/ame]
You can save the compressed image to your present external drive and copy it to your newly installed drive. You won't even notice the difference. Takes about an hour.
Or
you can do a fresh OS install if yours is filled with years of sluggish crap and extract just the data from the image.

Couple other methods with the prog too.
Have used it for at least 10 years, no problems.
 
That's what you do, clone your drive. Create a disc image now and use that to duplicate your hard drive ona fresh one, swap the new one in place of the old one...done

Acronis True Image works well

Forget about a computer shop, overpaid BS and people peeking in your private shit and passwords
 
I have had issues with the free seagate software where the imaged drive had boot issues with Windows Vista.. I would definitely recommend Acronis!
 
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