moving software from one drive to another

[ashiya]

How would I move my software programs to another drive.
I'm moving to larger drives and want to move my software
to my new system drive

 

[Tom Swift]

Two ways: the easy way and the hard way.

If you have imaging software, you can make an identical copy of one hard
disk onto another hard disk. This is known as disk cloning. The second hard
disk will be an identical, bit-for-bit copy of the first hard disk. No need
to reinstall anything. Just boot from the second hard disk and everything is
there. And the cloning process takes only minutes to perform. Some hard disk
manufacturers may provide cloning software for their disks. Check the
manufacturer's web site.

If the manufacturer doesn't offer cloning software, Norton Ghost is a good
example of commercial disk cloning software, but there are others. Read
about Ghost here: http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/ and
here: http://tinyurl.com/x9dk.

The hard way is to reinstall all your software on the new hard disk. There
is no way to simply 'move' applications from one disk to another that is
guaranteed to work.

Tom Swift

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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


--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| How would I move my software programs to another drive.
| I'm moving to larger drives and want to move my software
| to my new system drive

 

[Skip]

Just make your old drive the slave drive and keep them on
it,or get a program like Nortons ghost to copy
them....Good luck.