changing hard drives

[redchief]

:aol: my 80 Gb is full, i have a 160 sata installed and formatted.
i'd like to just make the 160 the main drive and remove the 80 for a folding box in progress.
is there a way or procedure to copy ie like norton ghost, the 80 to the 160 and not have to reinstall everything?
I don't think the copy paste command will work.
No rush, I'm not doing this till the taxes are filed.

thanks


dave:aol:

[RWB]

I know the drive manufacterers usually have a utility you can download that will transferr the information over for you. It'll be something like a floppy I think, that loads at bootime and you simply follow theonscreen directions to transferr windows to the new drive. It's pretty straight forward but it's been a while since I needed to do this last.

[Tex]

yes ghost will work great for what you want to do.

Tex

[redchief]

I remember seeing a procedure on Technet a while back, but It may have been before XP. Sounds like i need to rustle up a copy of ghost.

thanks Tex, Good to see ya..

[redchief]

10.0 latest version?

[redchief]

or have you heard anything about:

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/migrateeasy/

[redchief]

Ghost is not happy, i may not like going from IDE to SATA EC 8F17B3.
looks like a reload is in my future