My big to little HDD switcharoo:
So I have 2 computers, and 2 hard drives.
One hard drive is 120 Gigs. We will call this "Drive 1".
Another hard drive is 60 Gigs. We will call this drive, "Drive 2".
Now, Drive 1 I have had for a while. Currently it has roughly 40 Gigs of OS/App files, and the remaining files total to 80 Gigs (all media files of various types).
What I want to do is, seamlessly take the "Apps/OS" 40 Gigs of Drive 1, and stick that onto Drive 2 in a perfect copy. Thus, making Drive 2 bootable with everything Drive 1 had, ACCEPT for the 80 Gigs of media files. Thus keeping all my settings, the Windows XP install itself, everything aside for one 80 Gig directory. Almost like ghosting the drive, accept for the remaining 80 Gigs being left behind on the larger drive.
Now, how could I do this? I cant actually ghost the larger drive to the smaller one cause that wouldn’t fit, unless I could somehow not allow the media files (they are all in one directory in the drive's root).
Does anyone know how to do this?
One hard drive is 120 Gigs. We will call this "Drive 1".
Another hard drive is 60 Gigs. We will call this drive, "Drive 2".
Now, Drive 1 I have had for a while. Currently it has roughly 40 Gigs of OS/App files, and the remaining files total to 80 Gigs (all media files of various types).
What I want to do is, seamlessly take the "Apps/OS" 40 Gigs of Drive 1, and stick that onto Drive 2 in a perfect copy. Thus, making Drive 2 bootable with everything Drive 1 had, ACCEPT for the 80 Gigs of media files. Thus keeping all my settings, the Windows XP install itself, everything aside for one 80 Gig directory. Almost like ghosting the drive, accept for the remaining 80 Gigs being left behind on the larger drive.
Now, how could I do this? I cant actually ghost the larger drive to the smaller one cause that wouldn’t fit, unless I could somehow not allow the media files (they are all in one directory in the drive's root).
Does anyone know how to do this?
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