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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: TheWobble on February 27, 2001, 01:36:00 PM
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I bought a 25gb hd the other day and i want to transfer EVERYTHING from the one in my system now to it, I dont want anything to change, or to lose anything, I want it to be EXACTLY as it was before. I have my ideas how to do it, but I would like some advice.
It is VERY VERY VERY important that I dont lose ANY data in the transfer, from the 6gb drive (my current) to the new one. I want it to be exactly as before, just with more space.
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Why not just keep the old one in the system also? My dad did this with his computer a while back and instead of transferring everything to the new drive he kept it in the system. It just means that he now has a C, D, and E drive.
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ghost it
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swap drives and make sure everything works before trashing the old drive.
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sling,
I promised my gf that i would give her my old drive for her comp. thats why I have to format it after ive moved the files.
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That verson of ghost (5.1) will only work up to 8.4 GB drives. You can try it, but you will probably need 6.0. All you have to do is install the new drive. Fdisk and Format it. (Make sure to select yes for enable support for large drives, this is FAT32.) Now start the computer in msdos mode. (Press f8 during windows startup a ton of times until you see the selection screen. Pick command prompt. Navigate to the directory ghost is in and run it. The option you want is partition to partition. It's pretty easy actually.
What brand of drive is it? If it is a maxtor they have a program called Maxblast that does the partition clone as well. The catch is it will check to make sure at least one of the drives is a Maxtor. (If the old one is a Maxtor this may also work.)
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Originally posted by sling322:
Why not just keep the old one in the system also? My dad did this with his computer a while back and instead of transferring everything to the new drive he kept it in the system. It just means that he now has a C, D, and E drive.
Because then the newer and most likely faster hard drive will run at the same speed as the old one...and speed is good. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
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It is actually very easy.
Install the new drive in the system - doesn't matter if first or second channel, master or slave just set the jumpers on the drive(s) appropriately. You may also have to tell the BIOS about the new drive by setting whatever channel to auto detect the drive parameters.
Partition (fdisk) and set the primary partition as active. Format the new drive with the install system files option. You can add an extra drive letter if you want at this time but to do what you want to do, make sure the first partition is however large you need it to be as it will be the C drive soon.
Now go into Windows "My Computer" properties and disable the caching - you want to specify the cache and set it to 0 bytes.
Reboot to get Windows up with the new settings.
Open Windows Explorer and make sure the options are set to show all files - including system files. In the left pane, highlight the C: drive and on the right you'll see all the directories and all the files in the root directory.
Select everything and right click or use the menu to select Copy (*not* move).
Go to the new drive root directory and select Paste.
Everything will copy over.
Now shut down Windows and remove the old C drive. Make the new drive into the master on the drive 0 IDE channel and boot. Windows should come up. Now go back into My Computer and enable caching again.
Should be all done.
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One other thing - a lot of drives (major brands) include a utilities disk that will do all this stuff for you. Be sure to check your documentation - you might have everything you need already and a much easier way to do it.
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