C drive dying!

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My C drive is 95% full, XP home is slowing down. I have
installed a new drive and would like to move everything
to the D drive....is there a tool in XP to do this??

Any other method that will work 100%.

Thanks,

Paul
 
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My C drive is 95% full, XP home is slowing down. I have
installed a new drive and would like to move everything
to the D drive....is there a tool in XP to do this??

Any other method that will work 100%.

Thanks,

Paul
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Many disk manufacturers offer a free cloning tool
that lets you transfer the contents of the old disk to
the new disk.
 
My C drive is 95% full, XP home is slowing down. I have
installed a new drive and would like to move everything
to the D drive....is there a tool in XP to do this??

Any other method that will work 100%.

Thanks,

Paul
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What color is the drive "dying" everything?
 
No. That won't copy over the necessary stuff to allow the drive to
boot when it becomes the primary boot device.
 
NobodyMan said:
No. That won't copy over the necessary stuff to allow the drive to
boot when it becomes the primary boot device.
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It depends on the method you select. If you run the problem
disk as a slave disk in some other WinXP system, then xcopy.exe
with the appropriate switches will copy the lot. Running fixmbr
and fixboot out of the Command Console would then restore
the boot environment.
 
No cloning sw provided. I was looking to move the windows
operating system over to the new "D" drive.
I have moved "Documents" Folder and contents, all other
files but XP is not willing to move.
 
- Did you check the disk manufacturer's web site?
- How about the method I alluded to in my other reply?
 
Both Maxtor and Western Digital have software that you can
download.


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|
| No cloning sw provided. I was looking to move the windows
| operating system over to the new "D" drive.
| I have moved "Documents" Folder and contents, all other
| files but XP is not willing to move.
| >-----Original Message-----
| >"(e-mail address removed)" <[email protected]>
| wrote in message
| >| >> My C drive is 95% full, XP home is slowing down. I
| have
| >> installed a new drive and would like to move everything
| >> to the D drive....is there a tool in XP to do this??
| >>
| >> Any other method that will work 100%.
| >>
| >> Thanks,
| >>
| >> Paul
| >
| >Many disk manufacturers offer a free cloning tool
| >that lets you transfer the contents of the old disk to
| >the new disk.
| >
| >
| >.
| >
 
What manufacturer is the hard drive?

Maxtor uses Diskwizard
WDC uses Data Lifeguard Tools

r.
 
It depends on the method you select. If you run the problem
disk as a slave disk in some other WinXP system, then xcopy.exe
with the appropriate switches will copy the lot. Running fixmbr
and fixboot out of the Command Console would then restore
the boot environment.
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That's what I said without all the elaboration. Simply "copying" the
files from the current system HD to the new one, then swapping the new
HDD and making it the primary boot device, results in a computer that
won't boot.
 
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