Copy Win 2000 to a new Hard Disk?

[Siva]

Dear All,

My Dell Optiplex Disk Monitoring System complains that it
has detected that the Hard Drive is operating outside of
the normal specs and that I need to backup and replace my
HD.

I have Win 2000 Professional and don't know where my Win
2000 CD is. If I buy a new HD, can I map all the data,
importantly the OS from my old HD to the new HD?

Thanks in advance,
Siva

 

[David H. Lipman]

Siva:

What you want is Symantec Ghost 2003. It will clone the bad hard disk to a good hard disk.
Even if the new hard disk is larger. That means if you presently have a 20GB hard disk and
you want to replace it with an 80GB hard disk, all you would have to do is setup the 80GB
drive as a "D:" drive. Then you would clone drive "C:" to drive "D:". Then when you remove
the "C:" drive, you will have a working system on the 80GB drive. Just make sure the
jumpers on the hard disks are set to Cable Select (CS).

Dave



| Dear All,
|
| My Dell Optiplex Disk Monitoring System complains that it
| has detected that the Hard Drive is operating outside of
| the normal specs and that I need to backup and replace my
| HD.
|
| I have Win 2000 Professional and don't know where my Win
| 2000 CD is. If I buy a new HD, can I map all the data,
| importantly the OS from my old HD to the new HD?
|
| Thanks in advance,
| Siva

 

[TJ]

Siva,

I certainly would find a way to get your data backed up.
Burn the files onto CD, if possible, so you don't lose
anything.

If your PC is still under warranty, I'd say a call to
Dell is in order because they may send you a new drive.
If not, and you purchase a new drive, some of them come
with software to copy everything from one drive to
another. (I had this software with a Maxtor drive).

If Dell gives you a drive, you might consider buying
Drive Image software to copy your data from old to new
drives. Hope this helps.

TJ