transfering data to another hard drive?

[hardass]

I have a 20gig maxtor 7200 HD that im currently using. And I have another 40gig Maxtor im not using but would like to use as a primary.

I have a GA-7VRXP board. How do I set up another hard drive on my computer? do I use a 3 connector cable and use it as a slave? Or do I use the RAID controller on the motherboard? Is it possible to take all the data from the 20 gig and put it on the 40gig without corrupting the files?


thanx.

 

[hmsrolst]

As long as the system can see the drives, it shouldn't make a difference. I usually use Drive Image or Ghost, but the Max Blast utility from Maxtor should work fine. There's no reason you should have file corruption. It's usually a good idea to make sure the drive you're copying from has no errors. Also, some versions of some of the copying software can't see NTFS partitions.

 

[Freak2]

Your best bet is something like ghost. Hook your 40gig upo as a slave and use ghost to copy.

 

[dkozloski]

I use a program called Drive Copy. I like it because it is very simple and intuitive to use. It operates from two bootable floppies that also include some helpful utilities.