How to copy a harddrive

I have two Hard drives in my computer. The C: drive and the G: drive. The G is used as storage only. I want to copy all the info from G to a new internal harddrive.

I can not disconnect C: because it contains the operating system. Also C: is not large enough to copy the contents of G: temporarily. The C: drive is a 160Gb about half full, the G: drive is a 320 Gb also about half full.

The New drive is a 1 Tb. The 320 Gb (its a couple months old) will replace the C: drive as soon as I can move the info from it to the new drive.

Am I asking too much?

 

This is how I upgraded my notebook to a larger drive.
To copy the drive I used Acronis True Image 11 Home.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/
I connected the new drive to a USB port using this cable adapter.
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020&cat=CBL&cpc=CBLbsc
Then just took out the old drive and replaced it with the new one.

 

Hi Ranger

The adapter that Russ recommended is a handy handy little item.

Free software to do the copy, a backup program but use its drive to drive copy. Additionally it will image a live running system.

http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

Mike

 

I sincerely thank all of you that responded. I should have mentioned that I know how to make a copy of a hard drive and I apologize for that ommision. I will attempt to be clearer in the future.

TonyT, yes my hard drives are SATA. So what you are saying is that there are additional connectors on the mother board?

I remember that when I added the second hard drive, I had to go into the BIOS and turn on the position for the second drive. I will look when I get home, but I think there might be addition positions that were turned off.

I hope its that easy, that means I will only need to buy one more SATA cable

Again I thank those that responded