Best way to copy the contents of a drive including the OS

[gplracer]

I just helped a friend install Windows XP on his computer. Everything works great but he would like to get a larger hard drive and use it. This means I would need to go over to his house and redo everything or copy the contents of the old drive to the new drive. What is the best way to do this? I think he has a copy of Norton Ghost 2001 but I am not sure. The drive would need to be partitioned with NTFS also.

 

[Windogg]

You can plug two HDDs into the same system and use Ghost to do a disk to disk image. Takes only a few minutes.

Then convert from FAT32 to NTFS using the following command from a command prompt: Convert C: /fs:ntfs

Windogg

 

[bacillus]

I think he has a copy of Norton Ghost 2001

think you need ghost 2002 for XP!

 

[bozo1]

If either of his drives are Maxtors, you can download the latest Maxblast utility from their website. It will allow you to clone the disk.

 

[gplracer]

Can I install the new drive as a secondary drive, Then use Windows XP it format and partition it. Then boot to a floppy disk and do copy c:*.* d: to copy all of the files. Then change the drives to make the new one the primary one by putting it on IDE 1? He may have the wrong version of Ghost because I think he has 2001. Thanks!!!

 

[mandrake88]

go to the seagate website and download their utility called seagate wizard 2002 (i think) and install it.
once you have it installed, one of the features will enable you to do copy from disk to disk while in win xp. you can also
download their disk manager (dos only, fat16 and fat32), it will create a bootable floppy to boot from and
do your disk to disk copy (fat16 and fat32 only) under dos.