Hi Lea,
Most drive manufacturers have them. They used to be included in the box on
floppy, but most just make them available for download now.
Just as a point of information, when programs run they run from memory, not
the hard drive. Basically, when a program or data is called on, it is copied
from the hard drive to memory (either physical ram or the paging file or a
combination of both). It is during the initial loading that you may find
some improvement. Once it's loaded into memory, the seek rate on the drive
will have a negligible effect unless a fair amount of paging is required.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts
http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
"Lea Hayes" <LeaHayes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:71F7113E-B4C0-48C7-82BA-2602F57DC907@microsoft.com...
> Hi Rick,
>
> Thank you for your help! I didn't realize that WD offerred a free drive
> copy
> utility!
>
> My old HDD's seek time is about 9.8ms whereas the new one is 4.6ms. A
> friend
> of mine said that this should be a lot faster...however I am far from
> being a
> hardware expert. The HDD in my newer machine seems very slow when it is
> doing
> several things at a time, I didn't have this issue on my older XP
> computer.
> So I guessed that it would be either the hard disk itself, or maybe a
> difference in the way Vista manages disk scheduling (probably the former).
>
> Thanks again,
> Lea Hayes
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi Lea,
>>
>> Check with Western Digital here for a drive copy utility:
>> http://support.wdc.com/download/downloadxml.asp
>>
>> Don't expect too much performance increase unless you were a) heavily
>> paging
>> (in which case more memory would be a better solution) or b) replacing a
>> very old IDE drive running at 5400 or lower.
>>
>> You can replace the hard drive without purchasing a new license as many
>> times as you deem necessary. At some point you may need to reactivate the
>> installation as the hardware changes accumulate, but that is nothing more
>> than a phone call.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>>
>> "Lea Hayes" <LeaHayes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:9EB44F85-53E5-44D5-8C4B-9B6FBE7F1533@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi all!
>> >
>> > I have just purchased a brand new 'WD Raptor X 10,000 RPM SATA' hard
>> > drive
>> > to replace my existing one. The new HDD is a LOT faster and I expect to
>> > get
>> > some amazing speed improvements when using my Vista computer and games.
>> >
>> > How can I transfer everything from my previous HDD to the new one? I do
>> > not
>> > want to add the new HDD in as a secondary, I want to completely remove
>> > the
>> > old one!
>> >
>> > I have done some searching on the net, however people are saying that
>> > it
>> > will invalidate the Vista activation, or something or other......this
>> > can't
>> > be right!?!? Some people are even saying that you can only change your
>> > HDD
>> > once!
>> >
>> > Any help would be great!
>>
>>
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