New Hard Drive/Data Transfer help needed

[dfrog]

I have a Compaq Presario Desktop PC with Win XP Home - SP2, which has a
W/Digital 40gb hard drive, which is begining to get a bit noisy (I think
anyway).
Have bought and fitted an 80gb Seagate Barracuda, which Device Mgr sees, and
BIOS has as slave to the master 40gb drive. I want to transfer everything
from the 40gb drive to the new 80gb drive, then remove the 40gb drive.
I was confident to do this until I reached this stage. Having read (too
much) about doing this, my head is now spinning.
I would be most grateful for some help and guidance to help me to do this.
Current drive has 2 partitions C: (NTFS) at 34352MB and D: (FAT32) 3794MB
(which is the Recovery Partition)
The computer supports UDMA mode 5 and has a 40 pin, 80 conductor cable,
which the Seagate requires for UATA/100 (?)
Hope this is sufficient information to encourage someone to help.

dfrog

 

[Ken]

Have you looked into Norton Ghost? I just transferred my entire notebook 30
GB HD (including OS) to a new 60 GB HD, and it worked. (There were some
things to watch out for, not worth detailing here unless you're going that
route, though.)

 

[Guest]

Go to the Segate web page and download their Seatools software [that is
unless it was provided with the HDD].

Us this to initialise, format and partition the HDD.

Then it can be used to clone the existing HDD.

Be careful, you may find that the transfer of Operating SYstem from 40Gb HDD
to the new one, will require a 'repair' installation.

If you have an OEM version of Xp it will not be successful as you have
changed a significant component and that it contracry to your OEM licence
agreement.

 

[dfrog]

Ken & BAR,
Thank you very much for your input.
Have downloaded Seatools ready to try this weekend (with a fresh head
hopefully), and am also getting other people suggesting Norton Ghost, and,
XXCLONE, which is a freeware disk cloner, evidently quite similar to
'Ghost'. Do you think this is worthwhile investigating?
dfrog

Go to the Segate web page and download their Seatools software [that is
unless it was provided with the HDD].

Us this to initialise, format and partition the HDD.

Then it can be used to clone the existing HDD.

Be careful, you may find that the transfer of Operating SYstem from 40Gb
HDD
to the new one, will require a 'repair' installation.

If you have an OEM version of Xp it will not be successful as you have
changed a significant component and that it contracry to your OEM licence
agreement.

Have you looked into Norton Ghost? I just transferred my entire notebook
30
GB HD (including OS) to a new 60 GB HD, and it worked. (There were some
things to watch out for, not worth detailing here unless you're going
that
route, though.)

 

[dfrog]

Take a look at Seagate's DiscWizard (free) utility.

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html

Should be able to clone your existing OS to the new hard drive for you.

Martin.

Martin, - - Good Call...............Thank you...............I was sat
looking at DiskWizard but needed someone to get me past my 'lost my bottle'
stage.
Thanks for doing that for me
dfrog

For anyone following this thread, this help from Martin came from another
newsgroup, but I think I should post it here.
Thanks again to Ken & BAR