moving an OS install from one hard drive to another

[hans007]

does anyone know of software that is free that cna take say a partition on one hard drive, and move it onto another hard drive. like, i have winxp pro installed righ tnow. say i buy a newer faster bigger hard drive, and i dont wanna reinstall everything. Is there software that would let me just hook up the new drive to my other IDE channel and would copy everything over.


i know norton ghost can do it, but i want something that is free.

 

[jmatt]

xxcopy ( freeware ) from ,
http://www.datman.com/xxcopy/betatest/

Start > Programs > MS-DOS Prompt .
Copy the 1st line below & click paste in MS-DOS & click Enter , you
get a copy of everything . No need to close any programs down .
2nd line excludes Windows .
3rd line copies Windows only .

XXCOPY C:\ D:\ /CLONE
XXCOPY C:\ D:\ /CLONE /Xwindows\
xxcopy "C:\windows\" "d:\windows" /CLONE

http://members.tripod.com/~diligent/harddisk.htm
Use the startup disk to boot the computer and when you are at the A:\
prompt type sys c: and press Enter. The required boot information will
be copied to the new disk and you have a working copy of the old hard
disk.

 

[nuttervm]

often times hard disk manufacturing companies release free cloning software. for example, i am fairly sure maxtor offers a cloning thing in their maxblast bootdisk. i could be wrong, but check it out.