Originally posted by: reliqua
I have a small problem though... The OS installed in my 30 gig hd is installed in a partition 15 gigs big... it also has other useless junk, and I only with to transfer my OS, not the other junk i have in that disk...
You can use Norton Ghost to transfer your entire active partition to another drive, or a partition on another drive. If you intend to partion your new drive, as well, to use your current OS and setup on your new drive, transfer it to the first partition that will become your C: drive.
IMPORTANT:
If your OS is Win 98 or 98 SE, a good way to do this is to use bootable DOS floppy that includes FORMAT.COM and FDISK.EXE. You will need the updated version of FDISK to handle a 120 GB drive.
See this article on Microsoft.com. Here's
the English download.
If the OS on your old drive is Win XP, you will need Ghost 2002 or newer, and you will have to use it to set up your new drive.
1. Partion and format your new drive as you want it.
2. Make a bootable floppy with DOS 7 from Win 98 SE, and include your copy of GHOSYPE.EXE and a mouse driver. Microsoft's MOUSE.EXE ver 8.2 is a good one. You can also include an AUTOEXEC.BAT file that calls the mouse driver.
3. Power down, and connect both drives. For convenience, make your old drive the primary master. Make sure the drives are set correctly (Master, Slave, etc.) for the way you connect them to your machine.
4. Boot to the floppy, and select
Local -
Partition -
Partition. That will allow you to select the partition you want to use as the source on your old drive and transfer it to the partition you select on the new one. If you do not intend to partion your new drive, it will be recognize the target drive as having only one partition.
Once you have Ghosted to the new drive, you should be able to remove the old drive and install the new one as the bootable drive. Then, you can delete anything else you don't want to leave on the drive. If this includes installed programs or anything else that may be called in your WIN.INI, SYSTEM.INI, or registry, you should uninstall them properly to avoid error messages on bootup.
The only other thing about Ghost is, the copy drive will need a serious defragging. If you got your copy of Ghost with Norton SystemWorks Pro, I strongly recommend using Norton's defragger. It's much better than the one included with Windows because it places your swap file in one contiguous section at the head of the disk. This prevents the system from fragmenting files when writing around the typical dynamic swap file Windows creates on its own.
Facebook
Twitter