Quote Originally Posted by oldguy View Post
format the new drive, as one big drive and transfer OS and all files to new drive ? and use the older small drive as a portable backup? sound scary, im self tort this is the biggest PC Ive ever built.

Yep running out of space
Pretty much. Leave original drive alone for a couple of weeks. I'm not as familiar with WD as Seagate but they have good tools on their website to "wizard" you through all of this. Even works within Windows and tells you when to connect and disconnect your new drive. Almost idiot proof.
http://support.wdc.com/product/downl...vel1=6&lang=en


Keep backup drive at work or a mate or relatives' house.

Sure RAID1 mirroring is useful (use drives from 2 different batches) but prioritise backup to external drive first. Most data loss is due to user stupidity, theft, virus or OS shitting itself. RAID1 won't help with that.

Avoid gparted unless you know what you are doing and have backed up. It can sometimes render the OS unbootable.