I have a question I'm too nervous to ask on /g/. My hard

Buy a 1TB external hard drive, backup everything on to it, then transfer the backup in a new internal hard drive.

>>36579414
This

What are you retarded?

OP, you can make an iso image of your windows install, and then you can install the iso image on your new hard drive. That will accomplish what you want, but it's pretty advanced stuff. I don't really know how to deal with iso shit

>>36579033
it's not a big deal man

get yourself an 8GB usb pen-drive and download the windows installation straight from the m/soft site onto it

this way you can do a clean install straight onto the new drive

watch a couple of youtube videos on how to go about it, and you should be fine

Just do a clean install and move the shit you want over. Trust me, there's probably so much shit on your HDD that you don't even know of that you don't want, slowing your machine down (unless you regularly defrag, etc).

>>36580427
that only works if you have a serial