New hard disc

[Guest]

Hi All,
Could someone give me a little advice or direction please. I want to install
a new hard disc as the 40gb (C:/) is getting a little low on space and I have
2 other 40 gb discs running also D & E. What is the best way to save my data
from my old C: drive and put it onto the new 80gb drive. Any assistance is
appreciated.

 

[Kerry Brown]

Hi All,
Could someone give me a little advice or direction please. I want to
install
a new hard disc as the 40gb (C:/) is getting a little low on space and I
have
2 other 40 gb discs running also D & E. What is the best way to save my
data
from my old C: drive and put it onto the new 80gb drive. Any assistance is
appreciated.

I've used Acronis True Image with good results. Some has recently pointed
out this Acronis program as well.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/migrateeasy/

It's a bit cheaper and looks like it's perfect for the job. True Image can
also be used for backups.

Kerry

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your response Kerry. Just a quickie though, using Acronis or even
Ghost would that not cause issues when I transfer the image to a different
sized disc? The reason I ask is that when I've previously used Ghost to put
an image onto a different sized disc it has failed due to the new disc not
being the same size etc as the 1 that the image was taken from.

 

[Kerry Brown]

Thanks for your response Kerry. Just a quickie though, using Acronis or
even
Ghost would that not cause issues when I transfer the image to a different
sized disc? The reason I ask is that when I've previously used Ghost to
put
an image onto a different sized disc it has failed due to the new disc not
being the same size etc as the 1 that the image was taken from.

I use True Image all the time to transfer from one disc to another when
customers are upgrading to a larger drive. It looks like Migrate Easy is a
subset of True Image. I know True Image works. I haven't personally tried
Migrate Easy. If you read the info on the link it clearly says it has
"Automatic and manual hard disk upgrade modes " and "Resizes transferred
partitions to match new hard disk size"

Kerry

 

[Guest]

Thanks very much Kerry, I will give it a go. Have a nice day.

 

[Anna]

:>> I've used Acronis True Image with good results.
Some has recently pointed

Thanks for your
response Kerry. Just a quickie though, using Acronis or even

Ghost would that not cause issues when I transfer the image to a different
sized disc? The reason I ask is that when I've previously used Ghost to
put
an image onto a different sized disc it has failed due to the new disc not
being the same size etc as the 1 that the image was taken from.

rad:
I'm not familiar with the Acronis Migrate Easy program Kerry mentions so
I'll confine my remarks to your last query re the Ghost program (the 2003 or
Ghost 9 versions). In terms of cloning your source disk to a new disk all
that is required is that the capacity of the destination disk be sufficient
to receive the contents of your source disk. There is *no* requirement that
both disks be the same size or even that the destination disk be larger than
the source disk. So, for example, even if your 80 GB source disk held 30 GB
of data, you could still clone the contents of that disk to a 40 GB HD if
that is what you desired.
Anna

 

[Rock]

Hi All,
Could someone give me a little advice or direction please. I want to install
a new hard disc as the 40gb (C:/) is getting a little low on space and I have
2 other 40 gb discs running also D & E. What is the best way to save my data
from my old C: drive and put it onto the new 80gb drive. Any assistance is
appreciated.

Although a drive imaging program is good to have and I recommend it,
it's not necessary for what you need. The new drive should come with a
disk copy program to copy over the information from the old drive. If
the new drive is OEM, and doesn't come with the software, then go to the
drive manufacturer's web site and download their drive copy utility.
This is a no cost way to set up the new drive.

 

[Kerry Brown]

Although a drive imaging program is good to have and I recommend it, it's
not necessary for what you need. The new drive should come with a disk
copy program to copy over the information from the old drive. If the new
drive is OEM, and doesn't come with the software, then go to the drive
manufacturer's web site and download their drive copy utility. This is a
no cost way to set up the new drive.

If it is a generic XP install this works great. If the PC in question has a
restore/recovery hidden partition (Dell, HP etc.) I have not been able to
get any of the manufacturers copy utilities to properly copy the hidden
partition so it works.

Kerry