Move the contents of one hard drive to another

[George]

Hi,

I have two hard drives on my computer running windows
xp. What I want to do is move the contents of the
smaller drive (operating system and all my programs) over
to the larger drive. I then want to reformat the smaller
drive and move it into another computer. My questions
are, 1) Is it possible to do this, and 2) If possible,
how do I go about doing it.

Thanks for your input!
George

 

[Robert]

what type of computer do you have and doyou have two
drives or a partitioned drive. I thought I had two drives
once, but when I opened it up, there was only one there

 

[Flamer]

here is wht you do to do what you requested

You don't need any program at all..,If you would like to clone your
hard drive using the DOS command Xcopy, do the following:
Be sure the drive you've installed in the slave position as Drive D,
has a primary partition and is formatted.

You will need to format a used drive by opening My Computer, right
click Drive D, select Format > Full and select Display summary and
Copy System Files.

When your drive to be copied to is formatted, close all open programs
and go to Start > Run type XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r, click OK.

A DOS window will open to your desktop and when you are queried about
overwriting, simply answer "yes" each time.
This should work, even in an XP environment.