Ghost 2k3 and you!

[gregnash]

Ok I have a quick question. Currently I have a PATA 80gb WD drive that I want to copy over to a SATA 200gb WD but I cannot for the life of me remember the commands to do the following:
1. Ignore Disk errors when copying drive
2. Copy image over to include expanded space

I am not sure that I can do this from PATA to SATA but figured I would double check as my work will not let me get to the Norton site to look up the commands. The 80gb drive is currently about 90% full and will only defragment so far, system is beginning to respond slowly and I want to avoid spending hours reinstalling all my programs, fonts, copying over folders (school, music, photos, video etc) along with having to manually go through and reinstate all drivers, etc.

Any ideas or help? I know I am lazy and should just a fresh install but damn just not looking forward to wasting a day and/or night doing that.

Thanks

[Gambit]

I know it's not the answer you're looking for and it's certainly not what you want to hear, but I think you should *really* consider just reinstalling before you spend more time on this.

When you installed Windows on that drive, certain settings are made which will screw things up if you try booting that same OS from another drive. Settings ranging from the default boot device in the boot.ini to where programs are installed. Since your IDE drive shows up as C and the SATA drive will most likely *not* appear as C, I have a feeling it won't work.

More in reference to your question, I would definitely look into getting your data off another way, rather than reimaging as well. If your current drive has problems (causing the slowdown), copying that data bit-for-bit will only carry that problem over to the new drive, right? Past that, have you run a virus scan? Adware scan? Run chkdsk on the drive?

[gregnash]

I know it's not the answer you're looking for and it's certainly not what you want to hear, but I think you should *really* consider just reinstalling before you spend more time on this.

When you installed Windows on that drive, certain settings are made which will screw things up if you try booting that same OS from another drive. Settings ranging from the default boot device in the boot.ini to where programs are installed. Since your IDE drive shows up as C and the SATA drive will most likely *not* appear as C, I have a feeling it won't work.

More in reference to your question, I would definitely look into getting your data off another way, rather than reimaging as well. If your current drive has problems (causing the slowdown), copying that data bit-for-bit will only carry that problem over to the new drive, right? Past that, have you run a virus scan? Adware scan? Run chkdsk on the drive?

Thanks for the suggestion Gambit. Yeah it is looking like I am going to have to spend some time and just reinstall everything. Good thing is that all the items that matter, ie photos, school work, important stuff, has all been backed-up on an external USB drive so I have it no matter what. I am in the process of finishing another, larger case so I will just hold off until that is done and then completely swap the drives. Thing is that I have a pair of WD2000JD matched pair drives, however I cannot find JD drives anywhere. Think that they were an old, old pair of SATA 1.5G drives. Got them off my old job where I had to replace them with newer drives because one was "failing". However I did a low level format with WD SafeGuard Life Tools disc (or whatever its called) and drive seems fine now.....If not then I atleast have one of the two that works fine...

Anyone happen to know how to export Firefox links (favorites) and then reimport them?