Do I Need A Bigger Hard Drive??????

[kaw69]

Hi
My hard drive is 80 Gig equally divided, for the last month or two I am at the limits of the C drive but have about 20 gig free on my D drive
I have done all the usual copying all photos vids and downloads etc etc to my D drive and all progammes that I can.
All I have left in my C drive are Microsoft stuff and I daren`t choose to delete any files as I don`t want to be left with a computer that I cannot use.
Q,, If I buy a larger hard drive how can I transfer my files and continue using my Windows as I have now?.
It has been about 8 years ago when I bought my computer and it came with Windows Vista installed but i don`t have any details about it.

[Zacs-Master]

Why don't you just buy an external hard drive. @£45 for a 1Tb one.

[Buenchico]

If you insist on putting a new hard drive inside your computer, this explains how to do it:
http://uk.pcmag.com/storage-devices-reviews/14364/feature/how-to-clone-a-hard-drive

If you're going to follow the cloning route then, as suggested in that article, Acronis software is probably your best option. (If you were to ever be suspected of something naughty by the police or security services, that's what they'd use to clone your hard drive, so that they could then work with the clone and leave the 'evidence' untampered with. It's definitely the 'benchmark' software for the job). However it will cost you about 24 quid:
http://www.acronis.com/en-gb/personal/pc-backup/

However, as Z-M suggests, an external drive would be a far simpler (and probably less costly) solution anyway.

[Old_Geezer]

If at the limits of free space on C: and all removal of files have already been made, isn't this going to slow the PC down, which won't be sorted by adding a further drive ? Unsure what's using all the disk space but I suspect replacement with a larger drive might well be the easiest solution for those not familiar with how to squeeze more performance out of the existing set-up.

[kaw69]

As O-G says it is my C drive that is full of Microsoft stuff I have at least 20 Gig free on my D drive.
Q. If I buy an external hard drive can I "clone it" to be my C drive as suggested ?