Move XP to new hard drive

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William B. Lurie

I have XP on too small a hard drive.
I have a larger drive already formatted and running as "Slave".
I have PowerQuest Partition Magic and Drive Image.
Is there a straightforward procedure for moving everything
bodily from the Master to the Slave, after which I plan
on discarding the smaller hard drive?

William B. Lurie
 
You'll need to make an "image" of your old hard drive and then
transfer the "image" to your new drive. To accomplish this,
you'll need to purchase a third-party program:

Norton Ghost 2003
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/

or

PowerQuest Drive Image
http://www.powerquest.com/driveimage/

You may also wish to visit the support website of the manufacturer of your
new hard drive and see if they have a free utility program that you can use to
accomplish this task. For example, if you have a new Western Digital drive,
you can download their free Data Lifeguard Tools which includes "drive-to-drive
copy capability" (Ref: http://support.wdc.com/download/).

Fujitsu
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/#diagnostic

IBM and Hitachi
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

Maxtor
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/index.htm

Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html

Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/download/
www.westerndigital.com


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Nicholas

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| I have XP on too small a hard drive.
| I have a larger drive already formatted and running as "Slave".
| I have PowerQuest Partition Magic and Drive Image.
| Is there a straightforward procedure for moving everything
| bodily from the Master to the Slave, after which I plan
| on discarding the smaller hard drive?
|
| William B. Lurie
 
If your version of Drive Image is 7.0 it has a feature for specifically
copying a drive when upgrading to a larger drive. Works much like Norton's
Ghost (and even better in my opinion).
 
Hmmmmm.....My Drive Image is only 5.0 .......
I'll ask around, and thank you.
WBL
 
Thank you, Nicholas....as I mentioned, I already have Drive Image..
I gues I'm going to have to read the 128-page Manual...
WBL
 
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