replacing the c drive

[Paul Pedersen]

I'm sure I'm not the first person to ask this. I want to replace my C: drive
with a minimum of bother.

Ideally, I'd like to install the new drive to the IDE 1 connector, run a
miracle program that copies everything over - including system and program
installations - then remove the existing IDE 0 drive and replace it with the
new one.

That would make the process simple and painless. Therefore, it is unlikely
to be possible. What's the next best way?

The "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard" doesn't seem to work very well.

 

[ByTor]

I'm sure I'm not the first person to ask this. I want to replace my C: drive
with a minimum of bother.

Ideally, I'd like to install the new drive to the IDE 1 connector, run a
miracle program that copies everything over - including system and program
installations - then remove the existing IDE 0 drive and replace it with the
new one.

That would make the process simple and painless. Therefore, it is unlikely
to be possible. What's the next best way?

The "Files and Settings Transfer Wizard" doesn't seem to work very well.

Most all new drives comes with the manuf disk to do this exact sort of
thing......You didn't mention the new drives type so not knowing the
options it's hard to tell ya what the steps are. It's basically simple
though, it is possible to be simple & painless...... ;0)

Attach your new drive as a slave, pop the disk in, do a disk to disk
transfer, pop out the old drive, set the new as master & boot it up.
Personally I would leave the old one out at the moment until you are
positive it's all up & running. Make sure when you finish the transfer
if it asks to set the new active say yes. Be sure to shut the machine
down & remove the old drive & switch the new one to IDE0....

If you want to keep your other drive use it as a storage device in your
system for larger files. I personally wipe out drives like that before
allowing an OS to boot the system, see it and get confused because it
has an OS on it......The manuf utility more than likely has an option to
do that on the disk. When it's wiped you can use the OS to format if you
like....

 

[DL]

Most hd manu have a free utility on their sites to do just this. Provided
you follow instructions it usually proceeded OK.
An alternative is to use the trial version of Acronis to clone the drive,
once again follow instructions
PS allways a good idea to backup data, first.