Re: cloning system hard drive
- From: "Tim Cole" <timcole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:08:07 -0600
It took hours to copy all my programs, but the software that came with the
Seagate took care of everything for me.
Thank you, everybody, and especially Anna who went into such very good
detail for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I will probably look into Acronis or Ghost for future backup.
"Tim Cole" <timcole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ujLLDUlBGHA.2320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I know there's a post with various answers with some of these questions
>answered, but I'm not sure all questions have been answered.
> And, No, I can't afford a "professional," all they ever seem to do is
> reformat, reload.
> I need to install a larger primary drive but want to keep my WinXP OS and
> many, many programs with their patches and upgrades intact. In effect, I
> want to completely clone my present boot drive to another, larger boot
> drive.
> What software is best? Ghost, Aconis, or XXCopy? and what versions? I
> want the easiest and the best, not necessarily the cheapest.
> What process should I use? Can I install the new drive as primary (in
> place of the present boot drive), format it accordingly (ntfs? can I do
> that without XP in place?) then use a cloning program to transfer
> everything from current primary to secondary while keeping or transferring
> the boot sector?
> Upon initiation of the new boot drive, will XP require reregistration?
> (Bear in mind that I will still have my old boot drive available in case
> of problems.)
>
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