Harddrive question:

[ErikaeanLogic]

I have a "problem." I just scored a Western Digital WB1200, a 120GB ATA/100 7200rpm harddrive. I want to run my XP system as an audio-recording workstation and bought the drive because I want to take advantage of the wonderful read/write speeds it features. I attempted to copy my "old" drive, a 30GB Maxtor 7200rpm DiamondMax Plus, to the new drive but was unable to do so with the Western Digital software like I used to with Windows98 because I formatted the partition with the system files in NTFS. I either need a utility which will allow me to do this or I want to know if I am seriously bottlenecking my system's performance with the Maxtor by running the system files off of it. I just got WinXP tweaked to where I like it but will do a clean install onto the new drive and transfer my settings (1-2 hours, right?) if the consensus here is to do so.



Help me, I'm lazy!

(This is a re-post from the Highly Technical forum but I thought I'd get more feedback here; I apologize for the repeat to those whom that would offend)

 

[ErikaeanLogic]

anyone?

 

[TripleJ]

Well I've never done anything like this but I think I heard a few people say that there is a program called Ghost or something like that which copies whole drives.

Hope that helps. Good luck.

 

[ErikaeanLogic]

Hmm, why didn't I think of Ghost? Thanks, that's a great idea!

What about the actual performance of the Diamondmax+ vs. the WD1200 to run the system files?

 

[Burnt]

Is the Maxtor ata 100 too? The maxtor should be equivalent in performance to the WD. Now if it was 5400rpm, that would be a different story.

 

[ErikaeanLogic]

The Maxtor is 7200rpm, probably ATA/66.