Changing Over a Faulty Hard Drive - Help

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I have a faulty Hard Drive that has been crashing constantly over the last 2 weeks, blue screen after blue screen. I have managed to back up everything on to my 1TB Western Digital Mybook, today I went and bought a 500GB Western Digital 3.5" internal Hard Drive to replace the old one. I have a few questions I would like help with if anyone can help.

Firstly, do I just take out the old drive and replace it with the new and format it. Then load my windows vista OS and then connect the external drive and transfer the files from this to the new hard drive.

Secondly, I have CS3 and LR3 on my faulty disk, do I have to deactivate them and then reactivate on the new hard disk or can I just transfer over both programs from the back up and then continue using them.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Many thanks.

Andy:thinking:
 
As youre not sure of the problems with the old HD (hardware/software/viral) i would reccomend you run a full virus/malware scan on it before accessing and transferring any files from it, you might just be transferring the problem to the new drive
 
You may have issues with ownership of files on your other drive, I have just rebuilt my PC and have had to take ownership of every file on my 1.5TB spare drive before I can do anything with it, I found a handy little utility on the web called ownership that did all the work for me. Can't remember what site its from but if you have any issues send me a PM and ill email it to you.
 
Are you absolutely sure that the blue screens were caused by a fault with the hard drive?

Dave
 
neil_g said:
I don't know why people keep banging on about that, it'll take just as long before or after changing ownership
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Assuming that you haven't got the extended permissions set on the OS, in which case you would need to do it from the rescue CD mode (where the memory management and filesystem caching wouldn't necessarily be active), then it would be as quick in either direction.
In fact, if you are getting constand BSOD, chances are that you may not get through a permission change operation on the whole HD on the old OS.
 
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