How Do You Move Stuff From One Hardrive to Another?

plz make a backup on the original harddisk copy the backup on place over to another harddisk to main posbilities are available

CD / DVD RW is an option. but writing, erasing, rewriting etc etc, too much time consuming. You can connect the hard drive in your PC if you have an extra IDE / SATA cable as a slave drive ( just need to change the jumper on the back side of the disk) and then access both the hard disks from the PC and transfer files via drag and drop. If installing space / port is a problem in the old PC, do not worry, install the HDD in another computer, which is networked with your old PC, and share the HDD. Now you can transfer files over the LAN to the new HDD. Or else you can get an external USB flash drive , better an external usb hard disk and move files to it first and then to the other hard disk.

If you have got both of your hard drives plugged in you can do this. Have you already set them both up in your computer? If so you can just copy to the other hard drive as if it is just another folder on your pc. You new hard drive should be set up as the primary drive and the older drive as the secondary one. If you want I can talk you through setting them up, but yes it is possible to just plug it in and transfer the files.

Well yes coping the data to CDs/DVDs is one way to do it. Another way is to physically connect the two harddrives together in the computer (unless its a laptop, then its very hard). When the two harddrives are connected properly to the PC, power supply and motherboard the PC will detect both drives (there are instances where this is not an option like with older computers or lower end equipment). You should see at least a C: drive and a D: drive (or E: depending on optical drives/accessories you have connected). Look in each hard drive and then you'll know which is which. Copy the data you need from one hard drive and paste it to another. Another option is to get an external enclosure for your old harddrive (via Best Buy, Newegg, Tigerdirect). That way you can use the old harddrive as a semi-homemade external drive. Connect the drive to your PC and copy the data you need. Or get a different external drive for your old and new PC and use it to transfer the files. A USB Flash drive can also help too but it'll have much smaller storage space (meaning you may need multiple sessions with both PCs)