Copy old drive to new question

[Guest]

Hello

I have a old drive I need to replace as its starting to make noises. I bought a bigger drive to install and was under the impression that I could install it as a slave and then copy the old to the new and then make the new the master. OK, well im a little confused. I am using Win 2000pro. All I want to do is make an exact copy of my hard drive to the new. I want to make two partitions on the new though and copy my old drive to the first. I can do the partitioning part and all, but what I am confused about is that I have been reading where if you do a copy like this that the new drive will more than likely not boot because the mbr may not transfer over and then there is something about a SID and that windows wont see the new drive because of these two things??

Does anyone know how I can copy my old drive windows and of course all its updates and all my data etc etc to my new drive and that when I make the new drive master and reboot it will boot up like I never did anything???

What about using something like Paragon Drive Backup or something else?

Well thanks for the advice

Carito

 

[Alphonse]

Your last question is precisely your answer... If you have Paragon, and it
allows you to create an image directly to the 1st partition of the new
drive, great; else, you could create a full system backup on the 2nd part
and then restore it to the 1st. Else, use a drive imaging app such as
PowerQuest Drive Image.

Hello,

I have a old drive I need to replace as its starting to make noises. I
bought a bigger drive to install and was under the impression that I could
install it as a slave and then copy the old to the new and then make the new
the master. OK, well im a little confused. I am using Win 2000pro. All I
want to do is make an exact copy of my hard drive to the new. I want to make
two partitions on the new though and copy my old drive to the first. I can
do the partitioning part and all, but what I am confused about is that I
have been reading where if you do a copy like this that the new drive will
more than likely not boot because the mbr may not transfer over and then
there is something about a SID and that windows wont see the new drive
because of these two things???

Does anyone know how I can copy my old drive windows and of course all its
updates and all my data etc etc to my new drive and that when I make the new
drive master and reboot it will boot up like I never did anything????

What about using something like Paragon Drive Backup or something else??

Well thanks for the advice.

Carito

 

[Ed Allen]

I do this once a week as a backup. I use
Ghost 8,0 to create two floppy disks. I boot them and do a
disk to disk copy works perfectly every time.