Transfering Current Software to New HD

My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the software
programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new HD? My
concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web on my
current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
assistance that you could provide me.

Tom

"Tom" <t.parrish@bresnan.net> wrote in message
news:87c184cc-c70e-45c1-b942-c4f461cb3fd5@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
> it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the software
> programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new HD? My
> concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web on my
> current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
> assistance that you could provide me.

If you are in the UK, then go out and pick up a copy of PC Pro - there is
free software on the cover disk this month to clone a hard disk - if the new
one is larger it will sort itself out.

There are many hard drive clone / backup solutions - google for them and
there's bound to be a basic cheap/free one.

On Mar 13, 1:43 pm, Tom <t.parr...@bresnan.net> wrote:
> My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
> it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the software
> programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new HD? My
> concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web on my
> current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
> assistance that you could provide me.
>
> Tom

Acronis True Image 10.0 Build 4942 Home (Size: 100 MB)
http://www.4filehosting.com/file/70...2-Home-rar.html
With this you can image your hard drive. Put in the anti-leech number,
wait 60/30 seconds (watch the faint yellow print timer) & download
full version)
Good luck, Tom

On Mar 13, 1:43 pm, Tom <t.parr...@bresnan.net> wrote:
> My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
> it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the software
> programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new HD? My
> concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web on my
> current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
> assistance that you could provide me.
>
> Tom

On Mar 13, 1:43 pm, Tom <t.parr...@bresnan.net> wrote:
> My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
> it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the software
> programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new HD? My
> concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web on my
> current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
> assistance that you could provide me.
>
> Tom

Sorry, Tom. You may have a problem d'loading from that 1st link but
here is an alternative.
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/1354976
Acronis True Image 9.1 Build 3920 Server for Windows
Good luck

Tom wrote:
> My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
> it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the software
> programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new HD? My
> concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web on my
> current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
> assistance that you could provide me.
>
> Tom

Have a look at the new disk manufacturer's web site. They may have a
software package, for free, that works with their drive. That
software will copy the contents of an old disk, to the new disk.
When booting the new disk, remember to have the old disk
disconnected for the first reboot. And if something goes
wrong, you can always copy the old disk to the new one,
again.

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...000dd04090aRCRD

"Data Migration:

If you are upgrading and want to migrate your data from the old
drive to the new drive we provide DiscWizard as an option."

Depending on the drive type, and the OS you are using, you may
want to read this as well. There is an issue with drives over a
certain capacity. If you don't want to read this document at all,
then purchase a 40, 60, 80, or 120GB disk, as they're small enough
to not be an issue. For drives over 120GB, you should prepare the
OS to handle a larger disk. If you're running WinXP SP1 or SP2,
that may be enough to do it (no registry edit needed).

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/tp/137gb.pdf
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013/en-us

HTH,
Paul

Tom wrote:
>
> My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned
> that it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer
> the software programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to
> a new HD? My concern are the software programs I have loaded via
> the web on my current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would
> appreciate any assistance that you could provide me.

When you got the packages, they came in the form of an installation
zip (or exe), at any rate a package. When you have the OS running
on the new drive, just rerun the original installation program.

If you didn't save the installation program, you will know better
in future.

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[page]: <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>
Try the download section.



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On Mar 14, 12:43 am, Tom <t.parr...@bresnan.net> wrote:
> My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
> it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the software
> programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new HD? My
> concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web on my
> current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
> assistance that you could provide me.
>
> Tom

I use this: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page which contains this:
http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page Free and easy.

"GT" <ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> "Tom" <t.parrish@bresnan.net> wrote in message
> news:87c184cc-c70e-45c1-b942-c4f461cb3fd5@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com.
> ..
>> My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
>> it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the
>> software programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new
>> HD? My concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web
>> on my current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
>> assistance that you could provide me.
>
> If you are in the UK, then go out and pick up a copy of PC Pro - there
> is free software on the cover disk this month to clone a hard disk -
> if the new one is larger it will sort itself out.
>
> There are many hard drive clone / backup solutions - google for them
> and there's bound to be a basic cheap/free one.
>
>
>

What program is on this cover disk?

Tom wrote:
> My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
> it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the software
> programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new HD? My
> concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web on my
> current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
> assistance that you could provide me.


I recently had the same issue. Furthermore I wanted to copy the hard disk to
a larger one without wasting space on the larger one.

This is free and easy ...

http://www.xxclone.com/

It runs within windows and works by file copy rather than image copy. This
means you don't have to defrag your source hard drive. The destination hard
drive gets all the files.

The destination hard drive is compeletly bootlable. Follow the advice and
use the "make bootleable" button after copy, or whatever it is called.

I moved my almost full 20 GB drive to an 80 GB drive in about 1 hour.