Copying os from one disk to another

[russell2002]

Hi,

Im upgrading my hard disk to a much larger one and would like to copy all the content/os to the new one. I assume I cant simply drag and drop as the OS is run from the current disk.

Im running Windows 2000 Pro.

Any ideas ?

Thanks.

 

[mobilecommand]

howdy,

You cannot do that.. You need to mirror the old drive to the new drive.. When you use disk mirroring software it will ask you what size do you want to make the destination drive.

Check out

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

That cd contains many other nice utilities

 

[corkyg]

The easiest thing is to simply clone your drive to the larger drive. I use Acronis' TrueImage 8's CLONE function for that, and move everything, lock stock, and barrel weekly to a pair of reserve drives.

Takes about 11 minutes for an 80 GB drive to be cloned. And, then it is immediately bootable. I believe Ghost 9 can also do it, and several drive makers have their own routines for drive cloning.

 

[Slowlearner]

All retail HD kits ship with software from the manufacturer to do this, OEM hds dont, but you can download it from their websites.

 

[keeleysam]

I use Norton Ghost on Hiren's Boot CD. I can't give you a link to it, but jsut google "Hirens boot cd 6.0" and burn the iso.

 

[phisrow]

Any standard linux livecd, knoppix, feather, pupppy, damnsmall, etc. And the dd command should also do the trick.

 

[imported_Stew]

Isn't it possible to copy the drive contents, however? Rather than "move" them while you're running windows.

 

[ScreamingJesus]

Kinda threadjack here..
If I'm bulding a new comp, and I cloned or ghosted a OS(Windows xp) from the HD to a diff HD on the new system, would it work, or would XP still do all that vervification/authentication stuff checking to see if parts have changed?

sorry for the semi-hijack

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: ScreamingJesus
Kinda threadjack here..
If I'm bulding a new comp, and I cloned or ghosted a OS(Windows xp) from the HD to a diff HD on the new system, would it work, or would XP still do all that vervification/authentication stuff checking to see if parts have changed?

sorry for the semi-hijack

If it is jsut the hard drive, it PROBOBLY won't require it. But it is kinda random. I recently ghoset a bunch of dells, and about 5% required reactivation, and they were all the all the exact same systems.

 

[imported_Stew]

Ugh... activation. I installed some new pci cards and memory, and it makes me reactivate.

 

[Basie]

To further answer Screaming Jesus's question. If you cloned a hard drive OS from a entirely different
system on to a drive in the new system that would be exactly like moving the old drive to the new system. WinXP would be looking for all the old drivers and devices and chances are you would get blue
screened to death. Or if it would boot at all. But there are ways around that. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

 

[BATCH71]

CasperXP is a really fine program for cloning in XP. Works flawlessly in the background also which is really nice. I have used it for more than one family members mission critical

Dave

 

[firewall]

Save the wpa.dbl file in the system32 folder to some other safe location. Copy the disk, etc or perform modifications and then if WinXP asks for activation, boot in safe mode, and replace the current wpa.dbl file with the old one you saved before you made the modifications. That should help though it would be better if someone confirmed it.