Q: I just bought a new 60Mb hard drive for my PC. There is only room for one physical disk in my case, so I would like the new drive bootable and then copy all the contents (and registry entries) of my current hard drive to my new. Is it possible to do this? Got to format the new drive and assign a partition, but I can not make that drive the system / boot volume.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Re:Yeah I would go with Drive image or Ghost either will work. I would not rely on a straight copy esspecially if it's done while the OS is running you will not get all of the necessary files if that's what you did I'm surprised it booted all the way to the splash screen.
Re:voting for drive image (http://www.powerquest.com/driveimage/) . works great
good luck
Re:Originally posted by: guy
I do not see why you just cannot hook it up into the 5 1/4 bay temporarily, and then go into windows after it is hooked up, copy everything over, then shutdown, take out the old one, then bootup.
It doesn't quite copy EVERYTHING over when you do that.
Re:That's exactly what I did, and it froze at the XP startup screen. I'm going to try and use partition magig and/or norton ghost today.
Re:I do not see why you just cannot hook it up into the 5 1/4 bay temporarily, and then go into windows after it is hooked up, copy everything over, then shutdown, take out the old one, then bootup.
Re:I used partition magic and it would only let me copy NTFS partitions without changing the size. So if you dont mind having 2 partitions on your new drive you could use that. If you have fat32 then parition magic will do everything for you.
Do you have a spare 5 1/4 bay? you can install hard drives there too.
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