Hard Drive Swap

[Bobby Root-]

Hello,
I am using Win XP Pro. with HP Pavilion with an Athlon 900

I have a 40 gig drive in my HP machine, I recently bought
a 160GB drive and want to make the 160GB drive as my boot
drive. I have tried to simply copy all files from c drive
but the computer tells me that it cannot copy files that
are in use. I don't know how to swap my boot drive from
one frive to the other without re-installing everything to
the new drive. I have a rock solid installation and do
not want to do this. Does anyone know how to do?

Email: (e-mail address removed)

Bobby

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Hello,
I am using Win XP Pro. with HP Pavilion with an Athlon 900

I have a 40 gig drive in my HP machine, I recently bought
a 160GB drive and want to make the 160GB drive as my boot
drive. I have tried to simply copy all files from c drive
but the computer tells me that it cannot copy files that
are in use. I don't know how to swap my boot drive from
one frive to the other without re-installing everything to
the new drive. I have a rock solid installation and do
not want to do this. Does anyone know how to do?

Email:

Bobby

Most new hard drives come with utilities to do this.
Many third party applications also exist (Symantec Ghost, for example)

But you are not going to do any of it "in windows".

Go here, they discuss almost your exact issue:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Q_20777985.html

 

[martyn rees]

Hello, I recently bought a new larger maxtor hard drive and tried to use the
maxtor utilities and powerquest drive image to clone the old hard drive.
Neither would work for me so I downloaded a program called casper xp from
www.download.com . This worked but it only copied the partition as a whole
therefore the extra space was unusable until I used Partition Magic 8 to
partition the remaining free space.

Hope this helps,

Martyn

 

[Bob Howell]

I installed a WD HD last week. They have a utility to use for Win98- through
XP that works within windows and automates it all. You copy the old setup
onto the new hd then shut down and switch out drives and boot with the new
drive. I just looked it up, Data Guard fo windows.

It might work for you.