Monday, October 19, 2009

Get Ready for Win7: Hard Drive Upgrade : Getting Started

Hard drives tend to fill up faster than you can say, "How big is the download?" With images, digital video, and music from the tap, it is not surprising that the 80 GB drive in my desktop PC is nearly full after three years, with only 1.6 GB of space left. I do not have the money to buy a new computer, but there is an easy solution, I can put in a new unit that is large enough for at least a few more years of use.

In other words, I cannot make a hard drive transplant, and so can you. Online has never been a better time to do this because the internal drives that can hold about 320 GB of data are available for under $ 50. There are also units on the market that can contain up to two terabytes of data.

This is also the perfect time to do this project because the next windows 7 versionrequires more disk space than I have room for, while the same issue probably affects many other users. The new operating system requires between 16 GB and 20 GB of disk space, which is several gigabytes more of what Windows Vista requires 10 times and capacity requirements for XP. Unless we do something drastic (like the sacrifice of my files), do not fit. But if I do my job properly, should not have to delete all files.

ZoomIn this article will show you how to upgrade the hard drive of a desktop in three ways: from scratch with a new installation of the operating system, restore from a backup, and finally the cloning of image disc into a new unit. While you are using a period of three years, Dell OptiPlex 745 Desktop machine, almost all of what I will show you is applicable to other desktops and laptops.

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