Transfering Current Software to New HD

[Tom]

My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the software
programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new HD? My
concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web on my
current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
assistance that you could provide me.

Tom

 

[GT]

My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the software
programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new HD? My
concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web on my
current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
assistance that you could provide me.

If you are in the UK, then go out and pick up a copy of PC Pro - there is
free software on the cover disk this month to clone a hard disk - if the new
one is larger it will sort itself out.

There are many hard drive clone / backup solutions - google for them and
there's bound to be a basic cheap/free one.

 

[sandy58]

My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the software
programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new HD? My
concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web on my
current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
assistance that you could provide me.

Tom

Acronis True Image 10.0 Build 4942 Home (Size: 100 MB)
http://www.4filehosting.com/file/70972/TrueImage10-4942-Home-rar.html
With this you can image your hard drive. Put in the anti-leech number,
wait 60/30 seconds (watch the faint yellow print timer) & download
full version)
Good luck, Tom

 

[sandy58]

My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the software
programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new HD? My
concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web on my
current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
assistance that you could provide me.

Tom

 

[sandy58]

My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the software
programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new HD? My
concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web on my
current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
assistance that you could provide me.

Tom

Sorry, Tom. You may have a problem d'loading from that 1st link but
here is an alternative.
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/1354976
Acronis True Image 9.1 Build 3920 Server for Windows
Good luck

 

[Paul]

My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the software
programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new HD? My
concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web on my
current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
assistance that you could provide me.

Tom

Have a look at the new disk manufacturer's web site. They may have a
software package, for free, that works with their drive. That
software will copy the contents of an old disk, to the new disk.
When booting the new disk, remember to have the old disk
disconnected for the first reboot. And if something goes
wrong, you can always copy the old disk to the new one,
again.

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=d9fd4a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

"Data Migration:

If you are upgrading and want to migrate your data from the old
drive to the new drive we provide DiscWizard as an option."

Depending on the drive type, and the OS you are using, you may
want to read this as well. There is an issue with drives over a
certain capacity. If you don't want to read this document at all,
then purchase a 40, 60, 80, or 120GB disk, as they're small enough
to not be an issue. For drives over 120GB, you should prepare the
OS to handle a larger disk. If you're running WinXP SP1 or SP2,
that may be enough to do it (no registry edit needed).

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/tp/137gb.pdf
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303013/en-us

HTH,
Paul

 

[CBFalconer]

My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned
that it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer
the software programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to
a new HD? My concern are the software programs I have loaded via
the web on my current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would
appreciate any assistance that you could provide me.

When you got the packages, they came in the form of an installation
zip (or exe), at any rate a package. When you have the OS running
on the new drive, just rerun the original installation program.

If you didn't save the installation program, you will know better
in future.

 

[lemmiwinks.au]

My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the software
programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new HD? My
concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web on my
current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
assistance that you could provide me.

Tom

I use this: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page which contains this:
http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page Free and easy.

 

[Rookie]

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If you are in the UK, then go out and pick up a copy of PC Pro - there
is free software on the cover disk this month to clone a hard disk -
if the new one is larger it will sort itself out.

There are many hard drive clone / backup solutions - google for them
and there's bound to be a basic cheap/free one.

What program is on this cover disk?

 

[Mellow Crow]

My current HD is sounding much louder over time. I am concerned that
it may be failing. If this is true, how could I transfer the software
programs that I have currently loaded on this HD to a new HD? My
concern are the software programs I have loaded via the web on my
current HD with no backup CD-ROM disks. I would appreciate any
assistance that you could provide me.

I recently had the same issue. Furthermore I wanted to copy the hard disk to
a larger one without wasting space on the larger one.

This is free and easy ...

http://www.xxclone.com/

It runs within windows and works by file copy rather than image copy. This
means you don't have to defrag your source hard drive. The destination hard
drive gets all the files.

The destination hard drive is compeletly bootlable. Follow the advice and
use the "make bootleable" button after copy, or whatever it is called.

I moved my almost full 20 GB drive to an 80 GB drive in about 1 hour.

 

[GlowingBlueMist]

What program is on this cover disk?

On my copy of issue #96, of the British publication PC-Utilities magazine,
there was a DVD full of programs, one of which was Paragon Drive Copy 8.0
SE.

The program does require registration in order to use it. Once registered
you will receive an email with a serial number. Even with that you don't
have to pay anything for the program itself or it's use other than
purchasing a copy of the magazine that has not had the DVD removed from the
cover.

The better bookstores in the USA usually carry the publication, mine came
from my local Borders bookstore.

 

[CBFalconer]

.... snip ...

What program is on this cover disk?

Keep it simple. Assuming you are on Winders, try xxcopy
(xxcopy.com). Free, and he has a whole section on instructions for
cloning.