Move XP to new hard drive

[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

 

[Nicholas]

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

 

[Gene Hora]

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).

 

[William B. Lurie]

Hmmmmm.....My Drive Image is only 5.0 .......
I'll ask around, and thank you.
WBL

 

[William B. Lurie]

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