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| 110721 | 2003-01-03 07:09:00 | Hi, I have just got a new 60gb Hardrive, i want to replace my old 8gb hdd (which i will sell) how should i go about this? Put in the new as a slave and just copy/paste everything over?....... Any ideas would be appreciated. Cheers |
fergie (424) | ||
| 110722 | 2003-01-03 07:39:00 | Hi there, You can't just copy/paste everything over .... You will either have to reinstall everything or use a programme like norton Ghost to replicate you current drive contents to your new drive ... If you have had your current install going for a while it might be a nice opportunity to start fresh anyway ........... |
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| 110723 | 2003-01-03 07:48:00 | thanks for that. Thats wot i was after, i program that down it - i wasn't sure if you could get anything that done that sort of thing. Anyway, where do i get NG? does it cost? How does it work? do you have to put iit on the blank HDD (whcih doesn't have an OS installed) cheers |
fergie (424) | ||
| 110724 | 2003-01-03 08:11:00 | u, can get them in any shops. not sure about price think it was $120 or $200 odd for NT based like 2000/XP. u connect the hard drive *new* then u can image the old drive to another drive (the new one) and reboot and reconnect the new drive as c: Ray |
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| 110725 | 2003-01-03 08:20:00 | NG is $175 approx, for a version that runs on all including XP | godfather (25) | ||
| 110726 | 2003-01-03 09:00:00 | I know Maxtor have a program that you stick on a floppy disk that will format your new drive and then copy everything over. Other drive manufacturers probably have the same thing. I don't know if it does NTFS though, but I was using it about 2 years ago so its probably changed by now. | segfault (655) | ||
| 110727 | 2003-01-03 09:14:00 | virtually all hd manafactures have their own program which will "ghost" everything over to the new drive and is free, nortons ghost has heepas more optoins but cost $$$ | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 110728 | 2003-01-03 10:58:00 | Try looking at [www.pcguide.com where you will find info about 2 progs xxcopy and Drive Copy which are said to do drive-to-drive copying including Windows installation. | Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 110729 | 2003-01-03 19:11:00 | ok, thanks i'll think i'll lokk around and go find a 'free' program instead, i don't think i want to pay $175 for a program i'll only use once. Thanks tho |
fergie (424) | ||
| 110730 | 2003-01-03 21:59:00 | even if u reimage an HDD to another and it works.... fine, but Microsoft will require u to reactivate ur software(s). this is by experience. once u start office again that stupid dialogue box will appear again or else lock u out after 50 uses. Not sure about windows since win2k (i am running) does not have the feature. i know XP does, so suppose the same applies to it. Ray |
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