Hi, I am going to change to a new hard drive and will do a clean install. Any tips, heads up or comments to help me do this rigth?
 
Shine On!
 
PiBoy

add the new harddrive as a slave and leave your original one alone.
OR take out the old one put in the new one and make the old one a slave so you can access old data.
or just put the old harddrive away incase the new one pops! you will b e back up and running faster.
another tip is to put everything you create and store in your own directory /w/ subs and not the ones windows has for you. its nice to have everything in one place. drag and drop the folder once a month to a usb drive and carry on.
nothing like losing everything! hadrdrives crash and so do usb drives...
 
peace

Thank you. This is a laptop computer. I will still have my old drive and I will put the older one on a tower with usb connection so if anything I can have access to my old drive.
 
Basically I am concern with presets and plugins. Hope I have no trouble. I guess installing Sonar with the Command Center should install all cakewalk software and go and installed all plugins again. That is the main trouble. 
 
Shine On!
 
PiBoy

the best thing to do is just round up all the presets (pro channel presets, track templates, exc.)
the third party presets are the toughest because you will have to round those up in their respective folders.
you really don't need to re-download everything though. you can go to your cakewalk command center cache and save all the installers in the CCC downloads folder.
 
install new HD, install command center, copy installers from old HD and paste them in the CCC downloads folder.
when you start up Command center it will see the installers and only update what is a newer release.
this saves you the time of downloading sonar and all its content all over again.

Give that man a cigar ( or anything else you like to smoke) great advice Chuck. 
 
Ya good idea to leave the old drive alone and either put in another machine or a drive encloser. Drive enclosers are about $20. THat way you can always go back, and your data has a handy backup. 

I suggest you grab a 480gb SSD. A audio production OS is rather large. And an SSD works the best with enough empty space. I have a 480 GB SSD and it works out great. There are some great prices out there to be had. So.... go for it. An added bonus. The battery life encreased for at least an hour. Since an SSD taxes the battery much less...

Clone your setup from the old hard drive to the new using Acronis True image. It will take what you have and lay it on the new drive just like it all is on the old drive, expanding the disk space to fill the new disk. So you have everything just where it was before but with added space. If this is daunting to you, any technician that knows how to get to work can do this for you.