harddrive back up

[SS]

Now that I have my spare hardrive installed as a slave,
main drive 40GB
slave drive 80GB

Is it possible to just cut/paste programmes over to the slave and they will
still work ok.
I am thinking mainly of office suite and photoshop and a couple of others.

I am basing this on the fact the slave drive has more storage capacity.

thanks

 

[Malke]

Now that I have my spare hardrive installed as a slave,
main drive 40GB
slave drive 80GB

Is it possible to just cut/paste programmes over to the slave and they
will still work ok.
I am thinking mainly of office suite and photoshop and a couple of others.

I am basing this on the fact the slave drive has more storage capacity.

No. The question in your message body is not the same as the question in
your subject line.

1. You cannot cut/paste installed programs from the 40GB drive to the 80GB
drive and have them work. You must uninstall/reinstall them. Some files
will always go to the system drive, however.

2. To use the 80GB drive as backup, you can either manually copy data files
there or use an automatic copy program such as Second Copy or use an
imaging/backup program such as Acronis True Image. "Backup" implies
redundancy in order to be able to restore the data.

Malke

 

[DL]

And if you reinstall Programs to your other drive you will need to use
modified/manual installation process in order they are installed to the
other drive, otherwise the auto install will just put them back on C

You can move your Documents folder to the other drive - rt click My
Documents icon, Properties>Move
It would probably make more sence to move this folder, as apposed to
reinstalling Programs, then see what free space you have on C

 

[Big_Al]

SS said this on 3/17/2009 7:07 AM:

Now that I have my spare hardrive installed as a slave,
main drive 40GB
slave drive 80GB

Is it possible to just cut/paste programmes over to the slave and they will
still work ok.
I am thinking mainly of office suite and photoshop and a couple of others.

I am basing this on the fact the slave drive has more storage capacity.

thanks

Actually if it were my system, I'd use Acronis True Image Home and clone
the 40G to the 80G and then swap drives and run C: off of the 80G. If
space is your issue, this would solve that issue.

Then you could continue to use ATIH and make images of the 80G onto the
now slave 40G for disaster recovery. Unless you are filling your C:
drive with compressed zip or jpg files that don't compress, and with
your C: less than 80G, and with compression, you should get a backup to
fit on the 40G.

 

[BillW50]

In Malke typed on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:36:08 -0700:

No. The question in your message body is not the same as the question
in your subject line.

1. You cannot cut/paste installed programs from the 40GB drive to the
80GB drive and have them work. You must uninstall/reinstall them.
Some files will always go to the system drive, however.

2. To use the 80GB drive as backup, you can either manually copy data
files there or use an automatic copy program such as Second Copy or
use an imaging/backup program such as Acronis True Image. "Backup"
implies redundancy in order to be able to restore the data.

Malke

There was a program called MagicMover that came with older versions of
Partition Magic that would do just that. It was very slick and worked
very well with Windows 9x systems. I never tried it on Windows XP
though, so I don't know if it will work there or not.

This is limited in what it can move, but this might help you out too.

EAZ-FIX Folder-Mover
EAZ Solution provide a FREE Folder Mover utility that allows you to
easily move some important and space-hogging system folders to another
partition. You can use Folder Mover to move the following folder to
another partition:

- My Documents
- Windows Desktop
- IE History
- Recent Files
- Outlook Express Emails
- IE Temporary Files
- Windows Temporary Files
- IE Favorites

http://www.eazsolution.com/en/download_foldermover.php