You can transfer the data from your principal hard drive over to another one.
1) The very first thing to do when you would like to transfer data from your first hard drive to a newer one is to get a good imaging program. Imaging software is vital as it backs up your computer hard drive's data into an image, then enables you to restore it into another hard disk. Excellent for what we are making an attempt to attain here.

2) After you've installed the imaging program, just image the whole first hard drive into an image. This image can generally be stored on a DVD - I recommend you do that rather than storing the image on a hard drive. Once the backup image is prepared, does integrity check by seeing if the files you backed up are still there? Good imaging programs like Acronis True Image permit you to explore individual files in a backup image.

3) Next step is to take that backup image on the DVD, and restore it onto the new hard drive using your imaging program. This process should only take perhaps 10 mins (quicker than copy the data straight from hard drive to hard drive). And that is all that you need to do to transfer data from your first hard drive to a newer one.

4) You may think that another answer is to just copy data from your first hard drive onto an external hard disk, then copy the data onto a new hard drive. No can do! Direct duplicating of data is not just slow; it doesn't bring over lots of the settings you want. The sole sure way to bring everything across to a new hard disk (short of a total re-format of the OS) is to use an imaging program.

All that you need to understand about the easiest way to transfer data from your first hard drive to a newer one. Remember the above process isn't as hard as it appears - do it once and you'll be more assured in successive trials.