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Personally I have had issues with Windows Easy Transfer, and it is designed to be used to transfer from one computer to another which is great when it works because it will move your emails and accounts if it works properly.

It is easy to copy and paste the files you want and just as quick.
 
Yeah, I'd be fine with just copying the files across. The only thing is that it'll take time.
I guess that's my only option if leaving Windows on the hdd isn't a good idea.
 
SamuraiBigEd said:
Personally I have had issues with Windows Easy Transfer, and it is designed to be used to transfer from one computer to another which is great when it works because it will move your emails and accounts if it works properly.

It is easy to copy and paste the files you want and just as quick.
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Yep. Copy first, then check before you delete the old files. I never "move" anything.
 
Just to make sure, you guys are recommending me to fully wipe my hdd and then reinstall everything again? The moving of data is just for my files pictures etc right? (what about games?)
Last question : if i wanted to dual boot Linux from the hdd and windows from the ssd, would setting that up after wiping - before reinstalling my stuff - be a good idea?
 
"Don't get me into this!"

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(From "Uncle Jemima" sketch, SNL.)
 
Mehta23 said:
Just to make sure, you guys are recommending me to fully wipe my hdd and then reinstall everything again? The moving of data is just for my files pictures etc right? (what about games?)
Last question : if i wanted to dual boot Linux from the hdd and windows from the ssd, would setting that up after wiping - before reinstalling my stuff - be a good idea?
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Move all your data, you can save your game data as well but you will have to uninstall any programs that are on the F drive and reinstall afterwards.

As far as dual boot I would put them both on the SSD if there is room. I am not up on dual boot systems though.
 
It's probably better to ask this question when i get that far, but I'll have to create new folders like E: users /user/my documents etc?

Looking to get the hdd soon as I'm going on holiday soon and need to back up all the pictures from the camera before I go.

(also, should i look to be setting up a ram disk? Heard they = speed :-P)
 
Mehta23 said:
It's probably better to ask this question when i get that far, but I'll have to create new folders like E: users /user/my documents etc?

Looking to get the hdd soon as I'm going on holiday soon and need to back up all the pictures from the camera before I go.

(also, should i look to be setting up a ram disk? Heard they = speed :-P)
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When you restore the location to the SSD, set up the drive then move them back to the HDD they will automatically create. Then you can put your data back. Make sure to reinstall your programs & games to the HDD first before putting any saved data from games so you will have the folders in place to restore it to.

Get the biggest you can afford.

(I second the NO!)
 
Biggest what, hard drive? As mentioned in my other thread, I'm looking to get a 2TB internal hard drive and an adapter for the laptop. Speed demon (who beat you to it - how apt :-P) also told me to get 2TB over 1TB (
 
Once upon a time, RAM disks were great.

When I played Anarchy Online it was constantly loading textures (DX7 game I think, still is actually heh). But in general SSDs do a far better job. This was just around when SSDs came out and it was like $1000 for 32GB or something.

That game though, was specific in its issues of having lots of characters come on and off screen -- with thousands of different armor customizations -- and hence nearly constant loading of small textures. Nowadays, games are optimized to both pre-load and stream, and SSDs are fast enough for both, so RAM disks are a burden.

One problem was that every reboot I would have to copy the game files back to the RAM disk.
 
I don't know if it's still in the Linux kernel tree, but someone wrote a device driver that allowed Linux users to access and mount an arbitrary amount of video RAM in their video cards as RAM disks. I suppose that this might have been handy for the occasional system buyer who owned a computer with a killer graphics card, but was limping along with a bare minimum of disk and/or system RAM until their next paycheck. Aside from that it was the most clever but useless innovation in Linux history. :laugh:
 
Finally got the hard drive - 2Tb Seagate Barracuda.

Will backup all my stuff tonight :D and then resetting up of all my programs later.

Would I need to make proper folders liek there are on my SSD?

e.g. E\users\user\My Documents

or will E\My documents do?
 
I have directories on my Windows D: drive set up to mirror what the KDE directories are on my Linux box: Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos. The real directory names (as opposed to how they appear in Windows Explorer) in my Windows 7 user profile are similar: Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos (with some directories that I don't use omitted). You can use any names that you want, but I try to make mine more or less the same to avoid confusion, and to make directory synchronization easier.
 
Mehta23 said:
Finally got the hard drive - 2Tb Seagate Barracuda.

Will backup all my stuff tonight :D and then resetting up of all my programs later.

Would I need to make proper folders liek there are on my SSD?

e.g. E\users\user\My Documents

or will E\My documents do?
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When you relocate the folders from your C drive it will create them automatically.
 
Mehta23 said:
Wait. Does that mean that I can do any of my previous options, and it should still work fine?
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Well you don't have to use the defaults that Windows makes. You can save any kind of file any place you like. (I don't recommend using system directories though.) If you use IE, WMP and other Windows applications, they're not going to play nice with your choices. I don't use 'em, so I'm not missing anything. :D

If you can't live without the "My " prefix on everything, you can edit the Registry and copy the desktop.ini files, or use a program that does the same to move where Windows believes the default locations are and how they're displayed.

Personally I'm just fine with using the KDE names that happen to be identical to the Win7 real names. My Linux workstation is the master file store on my network, and even when I'm on my Windows box, I save to my Linux box first, and then let the updates propagate out to my redundant storage locations. That works for me; you can figure out what you like best. :)

EDIT: I forgot about Libraries. I'm not a big fan of Libraries myself, but if you use them it's fairly simple to add more directories to the library. Just right-click on a new directory, select "Include in library" and so on...
 
Got the 2TB drive set up, and I've already copied the pictures and videos across. Question is, would I have to actually uninstall the programs on the 1TB HDD before wiping it ?

Also, is there another way to make another backup of everything on the HDD? Just want to be safe, as there are many pictures that I can't really afford to lose :)
 
You definitely need to uninstall the programs otherwise Windows will show them installed but they won't function and uninstall won't work if the files aren't there, it would be a huge mess.

You could burn everything to disk, a hard copy is never a bad idea. Unfortunately unless you have a Blu Ray burner it will be a whole lot of DVD's and time.
 
I think I've backed the pictures up, anything on the cloud will take too much time, and I don't think copying them to the SSD as well will be any good.

In fact, I believe I have some of them on DB anyway, so I should be fine :P

urgh. Uninstalling is gonna take ages. Especially with the games!

Would a regular steam backup be ok, or should I make a backup of the actual save game data too?
 
That's the good thing about Steam, it automatically saves all your game data. When you reload Steam just install the games from the steam library and all your data will be there.
 
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