Narcon Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Hi allPlease can anyone tell me how I would go about transferring all to a new hard drive. I dont want to start again, because of losing all updates etc. I also do not want to end up with two hard drives on the system.I understand I may have to re activate via MS.I have another computer I can temporaraly put both old and new hard drives on.ThanksDavid Henderson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0r3d Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 I say you back up all the files you want to keep, and just throw it on the new hard drive. It'll be alot better that way. Probably easier too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narcon Posted October 2, 2003 Author Share Posted October 2, 2003 Cheers for the reply,I will definately do a back up.Dont forget some of us cannot get broadband.I just dont want to have to go through hours of security updates again, also I have current Norton subscriptions.David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Welcome Narcon, enjoy your stay.......I think that there is some software out there to do just what you want. There will be others that will reply I am sure with the details...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 If you have a copy of Norton Ghost, use it. Put in your new hard drive alongside your old one, and boot from the Ghost floppy/CD and start the clone process. Once that's done, take out your old hard drive, and put in the new one in place of where the old HDD was previously. I've done this before and its an exact duplicate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveXP Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Some times when you but a new HDD you get a floppy disk with it and that has copy features you could use that to copy one HDD to another and then bin your old one when you are finshed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggtyh Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 AaronXp stole my suggestion... :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narcon Posted October 4, 2003 Author Share Posted October 4, 2003 Ghost is in the post, will report progress as it happens, (Monday). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scankurban Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 Ghost is a simple way.But we are in 32 bit platform.Use Partition Magic and copy disk or partition another drive easily.There are many ways for this.Paragon disk commander,BootIT next generation,Norton Ghost 32 bit and Drive imageDrive image 2003 v7.0 can on the fly copy what ever you want Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narcon Posted October 13, 2003 Author Share Posted October 13, 2003 Thanks for all the help/sugestions. Norton Ghost 2003 arrived allbeit somewhat late, but I now have my system on a decent size hard drive. :beer: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerties Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 Actually ghost isn't the easiest way. What DaveXP suggested is.Every HD comes with a disk full of utilities. On that disk you have a easy click transfer/copy image from one HD to the new one. Takes only a few minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunil Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 Ghosting is defintly the way to go, it really does an excellent job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggtyh Posted October 14, 2003 Share Posted October 14, 2003 Actually ghost isn't the easiest way. What DaveXP suggested is.Every HD comes with a disk full of utilities. On that disk you have a easy click transfer/copy image from one HD to the new one. Takes only a few minutes.It depends if you baught the drive in a retail box or in an OEM package.All the people I know buy their hard drives in OEM packages...In fact, I know only one store that sells hard disks in retail packages, and they are so expensive compared to the others that no one buys them there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djkappi Posted November 3, 2003 Share Posted November 3, 2003 o man! this is perhaps the greatest emoticon i've seen! sorry, i just had to mention that! loledit: well, Narcon's one..[Posted: Oct 13 2003, 02:09 PM] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDaddy Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 I HAD A wIN98 install along WinXP! So I just backed up the Windows directory,Program Files... and connected the new HDD which was NTFS,then I booted the WinXP from my previous HDD then coppied everything from the backup disk to the new disk and all is working excelent now! Except I have some icon problem...check this link:http://www.MSFN.org/board/index.php?act=ST...ST&f=34&t=10495 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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