Need a good program for...

[Pelu]

Sup all... I was wondering what kinda program can move all my data from one harddisk including the OS and such to another one.. with out the need of reinstalling the OS and installing everything again and such....

 

[bruceb]

As long as you are going to use the new hard drive with the same motherboard, then just use Norton Ghost or Acronis TruImage to Clone the Old Drive to the New Drive. When done, shut down, remove the old drive, put in the new one and it will boot right up
and be fine. Also most hard drive manufacturers have utilities on their web site you can use, that will do the same job.

 

[redgtxdi]

I've only truly done this once......(I usually end up just starting from scratch w/ new HD)......but it was on a 40gb WD drive and moved it up to a 200gb Seagate drive. I actually used a Maxtor utiltiy CD that came w/ some Maxtor drive I bought and used that to clone the drive.

I recall that it seemed to take forever, but when it was done, it worked. That was about 2 years ago and that computer's still up & running well today!

(shrug)

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: bruceb
Also most hard drive manufacturers have utilities on their web site you can use, that will do the same job.

That's what I do. I generally use Seagate's utility(basically Acronis). I think all the manufacturers require that at least 1 of the drives is theirs, but the download's free.

 

[Pelu]

whats the name of the seagate one.... I see a program in the seagate site named DiskWizard... is this the right program.... is a bit big of a file...

 

[corkyg]

All of the above notes are good - but there is one caveat. That depends on your OS. If it is Vista, then TrueImage 11 Build 8053 or later can clone the drive to be bootable without a subsequent repair using the Vista DVD. With XP - no problems at all.

 

[bruceb]

I am not sure about Ghost 2003 or the later versions. But since they run in DOS mode, I see no reason why it would not make an clone of a hard drive that Vista installed on it. Now if it is running from within Windows, something I do not suggest, that is another matter. Ghost 14 should work with Vista from what I was able to determine.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: Pelu
whats the name of the seagate one.... I see a program in the seagate site named DiskWizard... is this the right program.... is a bit big of a file...

Yea, that's the one. It is pretty big, 128mb if I remember right, but it works very well. I think it can be used as a day to day backup solution, but I haven't used it for that.

 

[AleleVanuatu]

You need simran. That's the best program for this!