Harddrive transfer

[Anaconda]

I got a new 30 gb quantum fireball hard drive and i want to transfer everything on my 6 gb western digital harddrive into the 30 gb one... How do i do this?

 

[randypj]

There are numerous products that will "clone" your drive. But, for your purposes, I know WD and Maxtor have an utility that will clone drives, as long as one of the drives is their brand. I would check Quantum's site. I imagine they have the same thing.

Another thing to consider if you have an older mobo, is that it may have trouble seeing larger partitions.

Drive Image and Ghost are programs that will also clone your harddrive.
--Randy

 

[arod324]

When I copied all of my stuff, I used Norton Ghost. It worked like a charm

 

[overmars]

Drive Image, Ghost, Imagecast all work well. IC3 has a demo version at their site: IC3

That's if you're looking for the cheapest alternative since the demo is free for 30 days.

 

[sirfergy]

Which ones can allow you to burn straight to CD-R?

 

[Tates]

You can use DriveCopy or Ghost or you can do it in Windows.

W95, W98, and WindowsMe - You can use the XCOPY32 program.

On your desktop, start, programs, assessories, go to the MSDOS prompt.

Change the directory to: C:\Windows\Command

Next, type this command:

XCOPY32 C:\*.* D:\ /c /e /h /k

This assumes the new drive letter is D.

The command line switches tell Xcopy32 to copy everything, including all subdirectories, hidden files, and system files, and to preserve the long file names and file attributes.

 

[randypj]

sirfergy--Newer versions of Drive Image, Ghost, and Veritas Backup Exec. Nero has a backup partition option.
--Randy