I recently upgraded my PC last year, and moved from XP to Win 7 last week.  I've been using the same hard drive for years as my operating system HD and have a sepperate much larger HD for my downloads, and files. {My operating system HD is still IDE   }

Not only did Win 7 fill up over half of this pathetic HD, but I know the speed and recall of it is making my overall very up to date PC sluggish.

I just want to know, if I buy a new HD and install it as my 3rd HD on my machine, will one of these programs in this forum allow me to Clone the operating system HD to the new one, remove the old HD and make my 3rd HD my new operating system?

I assume that's what Cloning will do for me, but I've never had any experience with any of these programs and i'd like to make sure beforehand.

Thanks for any and all help given

Brian wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2010 at 1:53pm:


I didn't plan on keeping 3 HD's. I'll keep the big one I have, and was hoping I could just clone my Operating system HD to my new large SATA and junk the old slow one.

The old slow IDE is 150GB with no partitions and it's about 3/4 full.