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how do I make a copy of the harddrive in XP?

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bubagump

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I just bought a new maxtor drive and want to make a copy of the current WD drive on my computer so that I can use the maxtor as my primary master drive.
I am running windows XP.
Is there any way to make a replica of the old drive on the new drive?

Please help.

Thanks
 
Usually, a new hard drive comes with a CD or a floppy with disk tools on it. Maxtor comes with MaxBlast, a formatting/partitioning/copying utility. It should let you make an exact copy of any drive to any other drive installed in your machine.

Alternatively, try Norton Ghost and Drive Image. Those are commercial (but relatively cheap) drive and partition copying utilities.
 
The drive did come with Maxblast but like Hacker said it did not allow me to copy the original drive which i presume is because of the Xp on the orginal drive.
So, if I copy all the files onto the maxtor drive and reinstall Xp on there will that work?
 
Not sure if this will work.
I am guessing your orginal disk is NTFS, ghost can read NTFS but cant copy to it.
Set up the disk as slave or on another channel and format it as fat32, then copy the partition with ghost. You can convert FAT32 to NTFS latter. swap disk.
You could try ghosting an image to a burner and restore to the new disk from there.
 
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