Transfering Hard drives

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I am trying to transfer windows xp proffesional, all my files, and all my
programs from my old 4 gig hard drive to a new 40 gig. how d o i do a
complete transfer?
 
Hi,

You will need to use a third party program like Drive Image, Drive Copy, or
Ghost to do that. You create the image then install that image to the new
drive.

Jeff
 
Visit the website for your new hard drive and obtain the free utility to
clone your old drive contents to your new drive.
 
Norton Ghost 9.0 will let you do it on the fly. No image necessary.
Hook up 2 HD and copy one to the other (don't forget to select make
partition active and copy MBR)
 
Acidweezil said:
I am trying to transfer windows xp proffesional, all my files, and all my
programs from my old 4 gig hard drive to a new 40 gig. how d o i do a
complete transfer?
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You have to CLONE the old drive to the new drive. Just doing a file
copy will not work. The new drive will have to be connected to your
computer. Either to an unused position or you will have to temporarily
remove an existing slave drive. Or you could use one of those external
USB2.0 drive cases. I have used Norton Ghost 2003 with the drive in
slave position. The external case only works at USB1.1 in DOS which is
where Ghost 2003 does it's work. (Way too slow.)

And, when I cloned to the same size drive, everything worked just
fine, no problems of any kind when I booted up with the clone in
master position. But when I cloned to a larger drive, I had to do a
repair installation of WinXP Home. The repair installation completed
with no problems. You would need a WinXP installation CD, not just a
recovery CD that comes with some computers.

Good luck, jimbo
 
jimbo said:
You have to CLONE the old drive to the new drive. Just doing a file copy
will not work. The new drive will have to be connected to your computer.
Either to an unused position or you will have to temporarily remove an
existing slave drive. Or you could use one of those external USB2.0 drive
cases. I have used Norton Ghost 2003 with the drive in slave position. The
external case only works at USB1.1 in DOS which is where Ghost 2003 does
it's work. (Way too slow.)

And, when I cloned to the same size drive, everything worked just fine, no
problems of any kind when I booted up with the clone in master position.
But when I cloned to a larger drive, I had to do a repair installation of
WinXP Home. The repair installation completed with no problems. You would
need a WinXP installation CD, not just a recovery CD that comes with some
computers.

Good luck, jimbo
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Using Ghost 2003 you can indeed clone the contents of your internal hard
drive to a USB 2.0 external hard drive at USB 2.0 speeds - roughly 450 - 550
MB/min (about 1 GB every 2 minutes). I do this routinely using the Ghost
2003 bootable floppy disk to perform the cloning operation. If you're
getting speeds of USB 1.1, then your system is not recognizing USB 2.0
capability for one reason or another.

There is also no reason why you should have any problem with Ghost 2003
cloning the contents of one hard drive to another drive having a different
size (capacity). It makes no difference whether you're cloning a 40 GB drive
to a 120 GB drive or vice versa. The only limitation (if you can call it
that!) is the obvious one, to wit -- the destination disk must have
sufficient capacity to hold the contents of the source disk. There is
absolutely no reason to perform a Repair install after a Ghost 2003 cloning
operation. I have cloned hundreds of various hard drives in a variety of
systems and I have never once found the need to perform a Repair install
after the cloning operation. If you need to do so, something is amiss with
your system.
Art
 
Art said:
Using Ghost 2003 you can indeed clone the contents of your internal hard
drive to a USB 2.0 external hard drive at USB 2.0 speeds - roughly 450 - 550
MB/min (about 1 GB every 2 minutes). I do this routinely using the Ghost
2003 bootable floppy disk to perform the cloning operation. If you're
getting speeds of USB 1.1, then your system is not recognizing USB 2.0
capability for one reason or another.

There is also no reason why you should have any problem with Ghost 2003
cloning the contents of one hard drive to another drive having a different
size (capacity). It makes no difference whether you're cloning a 40 GB drive
to a 120 GB drive or vice versa. The only limitation (if you can call it
that!) is the obvious one, to wit -- the destination disk must have
sufficient capacity to hold the contents of the source disk. There is
absolutely no reason to perform a Repair install after a Ghost 2003 cloning
operation. I have cloned hundreds of various hard drives in a variety of
systems and I have never once found the need to perform a Repair install
after the cloning operation. If you need to do so, something is amiss with
your system.
Art
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Well Art, I have no idea why you feel maligned when someone has a
slightly negative comment about Norton Ghost 2003. The facts are that
DOS drivers for USB2.0 are few and far between. Ghost DOS USB2.0
drivers do not work with my external case. And none of the external
cases I have checked out, claim to have DOS USB2.0 drivers. All or
most have Windows USB2.0 drivers. And each time the cloned drive was a
different size than the original, a repair installation was required.
I think it is a WinXP issue not related to Ghost. And there is nothing
amiss with my system. So Art, get over it, no one is blaming YOU or
criticizing YOU for glitches with Norton Ghost 2003.

jimbo
 
jimbo said:
Well Art, I have no idea why you feel maligned when someone has a slightly
negative comment about Norton Ghost 2003. The facts are that DOS drivers
for USB2.0 are few and far between. Ghost DOS USB2.0 drivers do not work
with my external case. And none of the external cases I have checked out,
claim to have DOS USB2.0 drivers. All or most have Windows USB2.0 drivers.
And each time the cloned drive was a different size than the original, a
repair installation was required. I think it is a WinXP issue not related
to Ghost. And there is nothing amiss with my system. So Art, get over it,
no one is blaming YOU or criticizing YOU for glitches with Norton Ghost
2003.

jimbo
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Ghost 9.0 works great for me :)

Transferred a 160GB primary hdd (c:\60GB, d:\100GB) to a 60GB hdd (c:\60GB,
d:\30GB). Did not require a repair install. WinXP SP2 O/S. Do not have
nor ever used an external drive - so no comment there.

r.
 
jimbo said:
Well Art, I have no idea why you feel maligned when someone has a slightly
negative comment about Norton Ghost 2003. The facts are that DOS drivers
for USB2.0 are few and far between. Ghost DOS USB2.0 drivers do not work
with my external case. And none of the external cases I have checked out,
claim to have DOS USB2.0 drivers. All or most have Windows USB2.0 drivers.
And each time the cloned drive was a different size than the original, a
repair installation was required. I think it is a WinXP issue not related
to Ghost. And there is nothing amiss with my system. So Art, get over it,
no one is blaming YOU or criticizing YOU for glitches with Norton Ghost
2003.

jimbo
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Jimbo:
Please understand I do not feel "maligned" when you or anyone criticizes the
Norton Ghost 2003 program. What bothers me is the nonsense that many posters
spread as fact concerning this or that feature of the Ghost program,
specifically the Ghost 2003 program with which I've had a great deal of
experience.

I have no understanding of your reference to "DOS USB 2.0 drivers". Using
the Ghost 2003 floppy disk and Windows XP w/SP1 or SP2, you do not need "DOS
USB 2.0 drivers" to clone your internal hard drive to a USB 2.0 external
hard drive. All that is necessary is that your system supports USB 2.0 and
you are using the latest version of the Ghost 2003 program. As I stated in
my previous posting, I've cloned many varieties of USB 2.0 external hard
drives with the Ghost 2003 program a few hundred times at USB 2.0 speed
without any problem. Why you are having this problem escapes me.

Again, I reiterate that a Repair install after a cloning operation is
unnecessary regardless of the different capacities of the source and
destination drives involved. I have performed hundreds of cloning operations
with the Ghost 2003 program and I have never, repeat "never", found the
necessity of performing a Repair install. Again, why you have found it a
necessity to do so is a mystery to me.

Jimbo, I'll repeat what I've stated many times before. I wish every software
program that I work with (or ever will work with) was as simple,
straightforward, and effective to use as the Ghost 2003 program.
Art
 
Art said:
Jimbo:
Please understand I do not feel "maligned" when you or anyone criticizes the
Norton Ghost 2003 program. What bothers me is the nonsense that many posters
spread as fact concerning this or that feature of the Ghost program,
specifically the Ghost 2003 program with which I've had a great deal of
experience.

I have no understanding of your reference to "DOS USB 2.0 drivers". Using
the Ghost 2003 floppy disk and Windows XP w/SP1 or SP2, you do not need "DOS
USB 2.0 drivers" to clone your internal hard drive to a USB 2.0 external
hard drive. All that is necessary is that your system supports USB 2.0 and
you are using the latest version of the Ghost 2003 program. As I stated in
my previous posting, I've cloned many varieties of USB 2.0 external hard
drives with the Ghost 2003 program a few hundred times at USB 2.0 speed
without any problem. Why you are having this problem escapes me.

Again, I reiterate that a Repair install after a cloning operation is
unnecessary regardless of the different capacities of the source and
destination drives involved. I have performed hundreds of cloning operations
with the Ghost 2003 program and I have never, repeat "never", found the
necessity of performing a Repair install. Again, why you have found it a
necessity to do so is a mystery to me.

Jimbo, I'll repeat what I've stated many times before. I wish every software
program that I work with (or ever will work with) was as simple,
straightforward, and effective to use as the Ghost 2003 program.
Art
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Art, I doubt you have ever cloned a hard drive using external USB
enclosures or you would know about DOS USB drivers. And you would know
that Ghost 2003 boots into DOS whether or not you start the process
from Windows or from a boot floppy. The fact that you make no
distinction between "your system", DOS or Windows indicates that you
have very limited understanding of computers, operating systems or
drivers.

So, please quit responding to my posts.

jimbo
 
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