How do i do this process :) ???

[sojumk]

Well my old 30GB Quantum fireball is kind of laggying and making alot of noise, not that it's dieing
So recently i've bought a WD 80gb with 8mb for my system drive which i think would also add alittle performance if i'm right.

Anyhow this is what i want to do. I just installed a fresh winXP and installed all the software i want and eyecandied my winXP to fit my style at the 30GB C Drive

the WD 80GB is straight out of the shrink wrap. I want to make this as the new C Drive now. But i don't want to install all over and spend hours and hours installing software and configuring.

How do i make the new 80GB to C drive and copy all the files in my 30GB to my 80GB? so that i can just start the computer with a fresh new Hard drive but it would work fine like the 30GB...

man i made this question all so complicated but hope someone understands what i'm trying to explain.

and no i did not make a ghost image of it...

 

[Confused]

If you've got Ghost, or Drive Image, then it's really simple. Just plug the drives in, and you can do a disk-disk copy, which will copy EVERYTHING exactly as it is on your 30GB drive, onto your 80GB drive. Then unplug the 30GB drive, and Windows won't know any different 🙂


Confused

 

[EagleKeeper]

If you are lucky, XP will also not detect the difference😉

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
If you are lucky, XP will also not detect the difference😉

I had to reactivate after pulling a trick like that... don't remember what the other 2 hardware changes were either, but it activated over the net, so I didn't have to talk to MS.

 

[sojumk]

Well i don't know if this made he difference but
IDE1-30GB old drive (Master)
-Other HD
IDE2-CDRW
-80GB (New one in Slave)

I used Norton Ghost and used "Clone partition to another partition" and copied. After the copyin was done, I unplugged the 30GB and replaced it with the 80GB and it detected on Bios then after that it told me "Failure, please put system drive" or somewhat like that.

I eventually had to put back the 30gb but did i encounter my problem because the 80GB was copied when it was as slave?

 

[liquidtech]

Use Norton Ghost and do a disk to disk clone. Make sure you dont get confused about which is master since if you do it backwards you will lose everything.

 

[sojumk]

Originally posted by: liquidtech
Use Norton Ghost and do a disk to disk clone. Make sure you dont get confused about which is master since if you do it backwards you will lose everything.

huh? did you read my lastest post?

Well i don't know if this made he difference but
IDE1-30GB old drive (Master)
-Other HD
IDE2-CDRW
-80GB (New one in Slave)

I used Norton Ghost and used "Clone partition to another partition" and copied. After the copyin was done, I unplugged the 30GB and replaced it with the 80GB and it detected on Bios then after that it told me "Failure, please put system drive" or somewhat like that.

I eventually had to put back the 30gb but did i encounter my problem because the 80GB was copied when it was as slave?