Re: copying hard drive to hard drive
From: Dan Seur (click_at_casta.net)
Date: 08/05/04
- Next message: Willard: "Re: Outlook Express 'Local Folders' Hang"
- Previous message: sjwoo: "Re: Multiple Stop Errors"
- In reply to: anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com: "Re: copying hard drive to hard drive"
- Next in thread: Geoffw: "Re: copying hard drive to hard drive"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ]
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 18:02:38 -0400
Sounds like you're running with just one partition using the entire hard
drive space. With the new 80GB drive you might consider setting up
something like a 15GB C: partition for the copied old C:, and a D: (or
whatever your next letter is on that machine) for data that is put on
there later. If you put as much non-OS stuff as possible on other
partitions, you lose much less stuff if the OS goes south and you have
to god forbid reformat the system partition.
It's also not very tough to move large clumps of data copied into the
new C: over to the new D: for extra safety. (You might have to help an
application or two, first time they're used with this new arrangement,
find the data in the new place, but that's a pretty easy thing to do -
if an app can't find its data, it tells you and asks you to help browse
to find it. Then it never asks again.
Good luck!
anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
> Sounds Great! We do have ghost installed on this
> machine. Only reason I'm changing hard drives is that the
> 10 gig is full and I don't want to have to reinstall all
> the junk that is on that hard drive. I'll do more looking
> into the Ghost program to see how to get it to work for my
> needs. Thanks again and any more suggestions is greatly
> appreciated. This is what they get when they put a
> firefighter in charge of repairing computers, me asking
> everyone for help. I know how to put the wet stuff on the
> wet stuff, not repair a boot sector or merge data,
> etc...lol Thanks again!!!
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>
>><troy.kerr@okolonafire.org> wrote in message
>>news:09b301c47aec$9af1e0b0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>>
>>>I'm looking for a way to copy an a 10 gig hard drive to
>
> an
>
>>>80 gig hard drive without having to install and load all
>>>the software from one to the other. Is there such a
>>>thing/way? Someone said something about x copy? Not
>>>sure. Please help.....
>>
>>You have at least five options:
>>1. Use the cloning software that many disk manufacturers
>
> make
>
>> available on their home site.
>>2. Use an imaging product such as Ghost, DriveImage,
>
> TrueImage.
>
>>3. Install both disks as slave disks in some other
>
> Win2000/XP machine,
>
>> then use xcopy.exe with the appropriate switches. You
>
> will then
>
>> have to repair the boot environment.
>>4. Boot with a Bart WinXP PE CD (www.bootdisk.com), then
>> use xcopy.exe as above.
>>5. Install a parallel copy of Win2000, then use xcopy.exe
>
> as above.
>
>>
>>.
>>
- Next message: Willard: "Re: Outlook Express 'Local Folders' Hang"
- Previous message: sjwoo: "Re: Multiple Stop Errors"
- In reply to: anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com: "Re: copying hard drive to hard drive"
- Next in thread: Geoffw: "Re: copying hard drive to hard drive"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ]
Relevant Pages
|
