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OMG Judge with comp question
« on: May 11, 2010, 01:10:48 AM »
If you guys remember the summer of 2009 you guys helped me build a comp, which I am very thankful and much appreciated for the help and advise you guys gave me.

My situation, a few months back, a old pal gave me a new ocz 30 gbs SSD, he owed me big time, and since he didn't have much use for comp parts I took it and called it even.

I installed my OS in the 30 gbs SSD and some drivers, as time went on, it started getting pretty full, atm I have less than a 1 gb left of space. Since the OS is Win7 Ultimate I'm expecting more updates from Microsoft as time goes on.

So I looked into getting another OCZ 30 gbs SSD to do a Raid 0, so my concern is, is there anyway to copy the info in my 30 gbs and than after i setup raid 0 to put it back in???
Or do I have to do a clean start, and if I do, do I need another Win7 key or from what I read I can call Microsoft and they activate it???

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Re: OMG Judge with comp question
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2010, 05:31:56 PM »
If you use an external HDD (or a secondary HDD) as storage, you can move ALL data over to it. Programs are not easily transferrable. So you'd move all documents, pictures, etc, to the external/spare HDD< and then reinstall windows onto the new HDD's in RAID array.

I'd recommend a 1TB internal drive for storage purposes, install all programs and whatnot to it minus the ones that use the HDD more intensively.

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Re: OMG Judge with comp question
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2010, 09:50:25 AM »
Have a look at gparted, it should be of some use.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/
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