[MHGinTN]

How do you transfer every bit of data on an old drive to something like this 1TB drive ro replace the old drive in your desktop??

[dennisw]

Lets pretend everything you want to keep has been filed away in Documents. You drag and drop the Documents folder icon into the open folder representing the new external hard drive

http://www.wikihow.com/Copy-Files-to-an-External-Hard-Drive

http://techchannel.radioshack.com/transfer-files-internal-hard-drive-external-hard-drive-1453.html

[Kirkwood]

“How do you transfer every bit of data on an old drive to something like this 1TB drive ro replace the old drive in your desktop??”

I use Acronis http://www.acronis.com/en-us/ for disk image backups (cloning), but there are other similar products. Some free and some not.