It’s Thanksgiving time which means as I visit my parents for the holiday, I get to fix their computer problems. Yay!
Their system has an old 4GB drive as their boot C: drive (about half full), and a newer 80GB D: drive with maybe 8GB of data on it. The old C: drive has been slowly degrading for a while now and I really need to put their system on a new drive.
It would be nice if I could re-partition the D: drive and give it room for a new bootable C: drive and transfer the system there, but I don’t know of a way to do that without destroying the D: drive data.
Still, drives are cheap enough. I can go buy a new low-capacity drive somewhere here in this small town for less than a $100 bucks, I’m sure. So the real question is, what’s the best way to transfer the contents of the C: drive? Using just the utilities Windows gives you is a pain in the ass. Is there some good software out there that will help me with this?