Changing main hard drive in WindowsXP Home

[Andreas Sheriff]

Hi,

I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 with a 30 gigabyte hard drive installed, but
it's running out of space. I want to upgrade my hard drive to an 80
gigabyte hard drive without reinstalling my operating system and programs.
Is there a way to transfer the contents of the 30GB drive (OS and all) to
the 80GB drive? Is there a program I can use or does WindowsXP already have
a program installed? I was looking at the "Files and Settings Transfer
Wizard" and using a DVD burner, but I don't know if that will transfer the
OS and installed programs.

Any help would be appreciated.

Andreas

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You may wish to visit the support website of the manufacturer of your
new hard drive and see if they have a free utility program that you can use to
accomplish this task. For example, if you have a new Western Digital drive,
you can download their free Data Lifeguard Tools which includes "drive-to-drive
copy capability" (Ref: http://support.wdc.com/download/).

Fujitsu
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/#diagnostic

IBM and Hitachi
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

Maxtor
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/index.htm

Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html

Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/download/
www.westerndigital.com

Or you can purchase Norton Ghost and create an "image"
of your old hard drive:

Norton Ghost 2003
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
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| Hi,
|
| I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 with a 30 gigabyte hard drive installed, but
| it's running out of space. I want to upgrade my hard drive to an 80
| gigabyte hard drive without reinstalling my operating system and programs.
| Is there a way to transfer the contents of the 30GB drive (OS and all) to
| the 80GB drive? Is there a program I can use or does WindowsXP already have
| a program installed? I was looking at the "Files and Settings Transfer
| Wizard" and using a DVD burner, but I don't know if that will transfer the
| OS and installed programs.
|
| Any help would be appreciated.
|
| Andreas
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