OT (sort of) trying to upgrade HDD in my main seti rig

[Wiz]

I'm having trouble, I want to copy everything from my old, slow & small HDD to a newer, faster, bigger HDD.
I got a good deal on a WD drive & downloaded their tool for copying over the stuff from the old to the new.
Problem is this: I make the boot floppy but then when I try loading it it seems to stall out.
Says it's loading...

Is there a good, -free- tool out there for doing this?

Thanks!

 

[Insidious]

A long time ago, I would use the WD data safeguart tools to back up HDs. It is EXTREMELY slow. I remember waiting for nearly 3 hours to do a 40 GB copy. I don't know If I had some other issue that I didn't know about or not, got my hands on a copy of Norton Ghost and it does the job in about 25 minutes for 80 GB drives. but I digress..... my point is that the WD utility can be very slow... are you sure it was hung?

-Sid

 

[Soggysocks]

Question: Did you format and partition your new drive yet? If so, the copy utility should work. Of coarse, its a Dos based program and since Dos can't read ntfs files, it may not work. But you may find some other help Here.

 

[Insidious]

-YGPM-

 

[Wiz]

it actually seems like it doesn't get all the way through bootnig from the floppy, just hangs with the floppy drive led on.
I do have a ntfs volume on the old drive, and I use USB keyboard & mouse. THese might be problems for the WD utility.
I have ghost on a cd around here somewhere, but I can't find it. So much software, so little time...

 

[Smoke]

I was just about to suggest GHOST but I see you are already searching for your copy.

Good luck.