changing hard drives

redchiefredchief Santa Barbara Member
edited February 2006 in Science & Tech
: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:

Comments

  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited January 2006
    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.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited January 2006
    yes ghost will work great for what you want to do.

    Tex
  • redchiefredchief Santa Barbara Member
    edited February 2006
    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..
  • redchiefredchief Santa Barbara Member
    edited February 2006
    10.0 latest version?
  • redchiefredchief Santa Barbara Member
    edited February 2006
    or have you heard anything about:

    http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/migrateeasy/
  • redchiefredchief Santa Barbara Member
    edited February 2006
    Ghost is not happy, i may not like going from IDE to SATA EC 8F17B3.
    looks like a reload is in my future
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