hard drive upgrade

[Guest]

Hi All,
i am planning to upgrade my hard drive to 80 gb(existing of 40 gb).my cpu
cabinet is such that no extra slot is provided for having another drive to be
placed.so i planned to (or simply copy) transfer all the details of existing
hard drive to new one including set up files, automatic updates and to
dispoce the existing hard drive. how to do it? do i need to reinstall all
from scratch. please suggest. i am using a licensed version of windows xp.
thanks in advance
kakimani

 

[Guest]

Cloned your old to your new drive with a dive imaging software like ghost or
drive image

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

i am planning to upgrade my hard drive to 80 gb(existing of 40 gb).my cpu
cabinet is such that no extra slot is provided for having another drive to be
placed.so i planned to (or simply copy) transfer all the details of existing
hard drive to new one including set up files, automatic updates and to
dispoce the existing hard drive. how to do it? do i need to reinstall all
from scratch. please suggest. i am using a licensed version of windows xp.

Kakimani,

please have a look at http://winhlp.com/WxMove.htm .

Hans-Georg

 

[Michael Wayne]

If you purchase a retail box hard drive, it should come with duplcation
software to transfer all of your data to the new drive.

Since you do not have room to permanently mount the drive, then just
temporally mount the drive for the transfer and then swap the drives out.

If you never done this before, seek out someone local to assist you. Either
a friend who has done this before or if need be, take it in to your local
computer store. If say for example you purchase it from Best Buy, then for a
small fee, they will install and transfer everything over for you.
Note: Make sure that you keep your old hard drive. You never know when you
might need it.

Hope this helps
Michael Wayne

 

[Guest]

If you have a legit copy of cloning software, use it. I know Symantec Ghost
is an excellent choice, it will see your larger drive, and expand the
partition size to meet the new disk size. You should then be able to boot up
to the new drive just like it was your old one but bigger. Once that is
complete, you MUST shred the entire old drive. Or at the very least, format
the thing to get rid of the old installation to comply with license terms.