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Need help with copying one hard drive to another

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Drayvn

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I need a bit of help, ive been looking around the site, searching and what not. Some stuff comes close but i cant find anything that will help properly.

Well heres where im at. At the moment my Raptor 74Gb is just dying at the mo so i need to replace it with a new one. And at the mean time i want to copy absolutely everything, windows and all, so its exactly the same, so pretty much an image file to my 250gb Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 10.

Ive got Norton Ghost if thats any good.

Ive tried doing this before with Ghost but it would never copy any of the windows files over so whenever i tried to boot up with my Maxtor ntohing would come up when windows is supposed to load.

So i may be doing something wrong and if anyone to give me a real good guide on how to do it, that would be great!
 
from what ive herd from people at work is that there are programs that you can use to make images of your hard drive, so there not to big, and use that instead of reformating and stuff...

personally im kind of glad when i get a really big error or something because it forces me to format and get updates for everything in what not....

i dunno...
 
Download Acronis True Image 8.0, you can use the trial for 15 days. It worked for me where Norton Ghost would not (version that came with Systemworks 2003). Very, very easy to use and copied my drives very quickly. I plan on purchasing the software after my trial runs out.

Download it here.
 
If you have Norton Ghost, use it. It works great, use it all the time at work.

Edit:

Dunno why you had trouble with Ghost. I either just copy drive to drive or drive to image and then copy the image to a new drive.

What version do you have?? Perhaps it doesn't support the XP NTFS file system properly.
 
Well as John P just said use Acronis.

And it worked really well, much better than Ghost i have to admit, real easy and real fast.

I think im gonna have to do the same and purchase it also after the trial.
 
I'm quite puzzled...I don't know how anything could get easier than Ghost. Like...6 mouse clicks and you're done....were you trying to do it from within windows or did you boot from the boot floppys?
 
Originally posted by: lambchops3344
from what ive herd from people at work is that there are programs that you can use to make images of your hard drive, so there not to big, and use that instead of reformating and stuff...

personally im kind of glad when i get a really big error or something because it forces me to format and get updates for everything in what not....

i dunno...
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You're weird... no offense.
 
I'm quite puzzled...I don't know how anything could get easier than Ghost. Like...6 mouse clicks and you're done....were you trying to do it from within windows or did you boot from the boot floppys?
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I used the version that is on the Systemworks 2003 Pro CD. It choked after about 25% copying my kids hard drive from a 40GB to a 160GB hd and gave me some error message. I tried it several times and got the same error message even after defragging the drive and running disk doctor. Acronis plowed right through it and 2 more clonings without a hitch. I have had other problems with Ghost in the past. Acronis also has some disc setup tools (format and partition) that I don't think Ghost has.
 
Originally posted by: John P.
I'm quite puzzled...I don't know how anything could get easier than Ghost. Like...6 mouse clicks and you're done....were you trying to do it from within windows or did you boot from the boot floppys?
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I used the version that is on the Systemworks 2003 Pro CD. It choked after about 25% copying my kids hard drive from a 40GB to a 160GB hd and gave me some error message. I tried it several times and got the same error message even after defragging the drive and running disk doctor. Acronis plowed right through it and 2 more clonings without a hitch. I have had other problems with Ghost in the past. Acronis also has some disc setup tools (format and partition) that I don't think Ghost has.
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I've gotten errors before but only on drives that were pretty bad and going out. I use Ghost 8 Corporate Edition. Works great and can run the console from windows.
 
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