Re: Replacing Hard drive

"Daniel" <noone@nowhere> wrote in message
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Hi

I am using XP Pro SP2
I have a Laptop with a 40G Hard Drive and want to change to a 80G,
I want to copy all of the files and programs onto the new Hard Drive
without
reinstalling any of the programs, except for the operating system, if I
have
to.

Is there some way I can do this?

regards

If I was doing the same to my Compaq laptop I would use Ghost 2003 and
create an image to CD/DVD's or an external USB hard drive. Then change
the Hard Drive and restore the image.
Great, thanks for your help, I have Nortons Ghost, so that is what I will
do.

regards

Daniel


First and foremost, your version of Ghost must be able to access the media
you saved the image file(s) on.

If the laptop is in XP NTFS format (doubtful on a factory laptop), your
version of Ghost has to be able to create an XP version of NTFS (NTFS
version 3) partition for restoration. There also may a question of the MFT
and MBR restoration in some cases with older versions of Ghost regarding XP
and its version of NTFS.

Select all partitions on your current hard drive when making an image, not
just one, to backup the entire hard drive properly. Don't image each
partition separately. This may involve holding down the shift or ctrl key
and while selecting each partition.

Make the proper partition active during restoration, if that's an option.
Allow resize of the windows partition during restoration in order to make
full use of the larger capacity hard drive.
--
Jonny


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