Copy info from 40GB to 120GB

[Mike]

Get yourself a copy of something like Norton Ghost or Drive Image and use
them to migrate the data across, or alternatively if you feel more adept add
your new HAD as a secondary drive and copy one to the other.

 

[TonyP]

I just purchased a 120GB hard drive. I want to move all of my information
from my 40GB to the 120 and boot from the 120. How do I do that?

 

[Alex Nichol]

I put the 120 as the secondary drive and used XCOPY to copy all of the
files, but when I rebooted from the 120, it wouldn't boot. I even triedin
Safe Mode.

XCOPY is not really safe even in earlier windows, and in XP will *not*
copy things like registry files.

Use a third party manager/imager for this - my tool of choice for it is
BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full
functional trial)

Do you know if I can use FAT32 on my 120GB hard drive, or do I have to use
NTFS?

In principle yes *if* you make the FAT 32 partition by other software
(like a WinME startup floppy). But it is a silly size for FAT 32, and
if you were to format it in XP that would insist on NTFS. It is in any
case not sensible to have such a big disk in one partition - keep the
system one fairly small (the copy of your present disk, or I would have
something even smaller) then make the rest into a big NTFS partition for
big data files, like Videos and music files