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Thread ID: 14688	2002-01-15 23:40:00	Disk Imaging	Guest (0)	Press F1

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31384	2002-01-15 23:40:00	Hello, I have purchased a new hard drive, and am wanting to transfer all the info from my old drive to the new drive. What is the best way to do this. I would rather copy the information across, rather than re-installing all the software. Lets assume that I can connect both drives up to the same pc for the purpose of copying the files. What do I do then, what software do I need, and where do I get this software, Regards, Trent	Guest (0)
31385	2002-01-16 02:36:00	Norton Ghost or Powerquests Drive Imager will do this. Either buy one from the shop, or 'borrow' a copy. G P	Guest (0)
31386	2002-01-16 03:55:00	Disk imaging software will only re-image the new disk if it is the same size as the old one. If you have bought a new HD then it is likely to be a different (bigger) size. If the new disk is different to the old, you will have to format and re-install all the software, starting with the OS. If you then want to transfer DATA from your old disk, connect the old drive back into the PC and just use Win Explorer to drag and drop or cut and paste from the old drive to the new.	Guest (0)
31387	2002-01-16 05:56:00	Hello Trent, Just go to the manufacturer of your Hard Drive's web site and download their disk installation utility (they all have them) part of this utility will include Drive copy or similar which will copy all files from one drive to the other and hold your hand the whole way, this is by far the best and easiest free way of copying the whole system including settings from one drive to a new one. Alan	Guest (0)
31388	2002-01-16 07:31:00	Ray, As long as the disk you are copying to is the same size, or bigger, then it's no problem.	Guest (0)
31389	2002-01-17 11:08:00	Trent Ghost will dump a disk or partition image regardless of the relative size of the destination, so long as it is big enough. All it does is transfer the data. Cloning partitions or disks is another matter and there you need to have the source and destination the same size. I am not too knowledgable about making drives bootable but I suspect that you would have to format the destination as a bootable drive as the image would probably not carry the boot sector information. I stand to be corrected by a Ghost expert of course. An alternative is to put the new disk in as a secondary drive and do a copy then swap them over. The command line needs some special switches to ensure that all of the OS files get transferred and I think these were on a recent post. Try doing a search of the Press F1 archive and you may get the answer. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Guest (0)
31390	2002-01-19 07:51:00	Get a copy of Ghost and go disk-to-disk : no worries. I just upgraded a 30Gb drive running Windows 2000 Small Business Server on three partitions to a 60Gb drive, changing partition sizes 'on-the-fly'. No problems. No special commands or switches required. Power down, put the new disk in as master, the original as slave, boot to a Ghost boot disk and do the ghost, power down, remove the orignal disk, et voila ! Done.	Guest (0)
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