Best Way to Copy Hard Drive?

[BRH]

I want to replace the 80 gig slave hard drive in my system with a 200gig
(or more hard drive). What's the best way to copy the contents from the
80 Gig to the 200 Gig drive?

Is there a simple way to do this in XP Pro, or am I better off using
some 3rd part software like Drive Image or Drive Copy?

Thanks!

 

[Bill Crocker]

Use Symantec's Ghost v 9. Symantec bought Drive Image, from PowerQuest, and
it is now the best one out there!

Bill Crocker

 

[Malke]

I want to replace the 80 gig slave hard drive in my system with a
200gig
(or more hard drive). What's the best way to copy the contents from
the 80 Gig to the 200 Gig drive?

Is there a simple way to do this in XP Pro, or am I better off using
some 3rd part software like Drive Image or Drive Copy?

Thanks!

If you bought the 200GB drive retail, there will be a utility in there
that will copy the current operating system to the new drive. If you
got the drive whitebox, go to the drive mftr.'s website and download
the utility. You will boot with the utility with the new drive in slave
position, follow the instructions in the program, and then when you are
finished you will move the new drive to master position. You can then
make the old drive slave and format it if you like.

Malke

 

[Christian]

Install both hard drives in your computer one as primary and the other as a
slave. Then use xcopy or ghost to copy one hard drive to the other.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I want to replace the 80 gig slave hard drive in my system with
a
200gig (or more hard drive). What's the best way to copy the
contents from the 80 Gig to the 200 Gig drive?

Is there a simple way to do this in XP Pro,

No.


or am I better off using
some 3rd part software like Drive Image or Drive Copy?

Yes. You probably will find that such a utilty comes with your
new drive.

 

[Michael Stevens]

In

I want to replace the 80 gig slave hard drive in my system with a
200gig (or more hard drive). What's the best way to copy the
contents from the 80 Gig to the 200 Gig drive?

Is there a simple way to do this in XP Pro, or am I better off using
some 3rd part software like Drive Image or Drive Copy?

Thanks!

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[BBUNNY]

BRH wrote:
| I want to replace the 80 gig slave hard drive in my system with a
| 200gig (or more hard drive). What's the best way to copy the
| contents from the 80 Gig to the 200 Gig drive?
|
| Is there a simple way to do this in XP Pro, or am I better off using
| some 3rd part software like Drive Image or Drive Copy?
|
| Thanks!

If it is a slave drive with only data files, just partition, format and
use
windows explorer to copy it over to the new drive.
Or use the disk utility that comes with the new HDD to clone the
drive.

 

[Paul Knudsen]

I want to replace the 80 gig slave hard drive in my system with a 200gig
(or more hard drive). What's the best way to copy the contents from the
80 Gig to the 200 Gig drive?

Is there a simple way to do this in XP Pro, or am I better off using
some 3rd part software like Drive Image or Drive Copy?

Thanks!

Why toss the 80G? Keep it and use the new drive for data!

 

[Kelly]

Hi,

Slave it and then do a copy and paste via Windows Explorer.

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[Anna]

Why toss the 80G? Keep it and use the new drive for data!
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Hi,
Slave it and then do a copy and paste via Windows Explorer.
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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
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Paul:
I surely don't think the OP wants to "toss" his 80 GB HD. All he or she
wants to do is transfer the contents of that drive onto a larger drive and
no doubt use the 80 GB one for other uses.

Kelly:
I would think that the OP really wants to transfer the *entire* contents of
his 80 GB HD to the larger drive, not merely copy his/her data files through
a "cut & paste" operation. I realize he/she has used the word "copy", but
it's a fair assumption to make that he or she wants to clone the contents of
one drive to another.

BRH:
Assuming my assumption is correct (see above), you can use a disk imaging
program such as Symantec's Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image to "clone" the
contents of your 80 GB HD to the 200 GB one. In effect, you'll be making a
bit-for-bit copy of your "old" drive. So your new drive will be an exact
duplicate of the old one, including the operating system, registry settings,
programs & applications, your data files - in short, everything that's one
the 80 GB disk. Obviously, you can then use that 80 GB HD as a backup drive
and use one of those disk imaging programs to routinely clone the contents
of your working drive to the backup one. If you're interested only in a
one-shot clone, then you can use the disk cloning utility that's (usually)
included in the retail boxed version of the 200 GB drive you're planning to
purchase. Or if not included, that utility is nearly always available from
the HD manufacturer's website. It's not the most practical program for
routine disk cloning because it's abysmally slow, but it's fine for a
one-time clone.
Anna