Moving Current Setup To A New Hard Drive

[Calen]

OK basically i want to have an exact mirrior image of my current harddrive to my new one so i dont need to go about reinstalling a fresh XP again to my new hard drive, is this possible and what program would i need?

The old HD will then be removed from my system, i guess i could install XP to the new HD and them copy my other stuff over manually but that will probably be messy.

Any tips be nice :-)

[Calen]

oooooh. 999 ..... 1000
hurrah :pint:

[that_punk_guy]

Norton Ghost, if you can get hold of it, is good for this kind of thing, although I haven't used it to backup anything other than Win98 partitions, I'm sure recent versions would have no problems with NTFS and things... It comes as part of Norton Systemworks, might also be available on its own.


oooooh. 999 ..... 1000
hurrah :pint:


Nice one :-)

[Calen]

@that_punk_guy

Had a quick read about it and sounds just what i need.

Cheers :-)

[SilvrDrgn]

Drive Image from PowerQuest can do the same thing. Beware, though, moving from old to radically new hardware can cause unexpected problems. I did this with my mom's computer. Old Gateway system with 366 MHz AMD K6-2 to a custom built Asus P4PE motherboard with 2 GHz P4. Windows 2000 Pro on it would start to boot up, and then say Inaccessible Boot Device" on the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). I was thinking to myself, "Well, what were you just reading to get that far?!?! Piece of @%$# !!" I ended up wiping the drive and reinstalling all the software. Took a long friggen time! :(

[HopperJF]

Your running Windows? Sick :-o

[SilvrDrgn]

HopperJF wrote:
Your running Windows? Sick :-o
I'm not (well, not by choice, it's on my work computer), but my Mom does every day.

[bloodline]

In light of recent threads... maybe Amiga.org should become crappywindowsxp.org ;-)

[adz]

So long as the drive remains on the same controller, and channel (assuming your using IDE), you should be fine.