Copying settings of an OS over to another HD. .

I have a Seagate Barracuda 160gb IDE, but recently acquired a Raptor WD360 for cheap (old version).

I have successfully installed Windows onto the Raptor without problems.

However, is there any way to have intricate things copied over from my original windows?

Or do I have to spend hours downloading all my firefox extensions, drivers, plugins, installing aps, setting my desktop configurations.

I know I can copy documents and all that, but is there something simple for everything else?

Thanks, sry if this is a n00bish question, I can't really find an answer.

If your only change is the hard drive, you can use ghost or the software that came with your new harddrive to clone the old drive onto the new.. Everything gets transfered that way..

GORANKAR said:

If your only change is the hard drive, you can use ghost or the software that came with your new harddrive to clone the old drive onto the new.. Everything gets transfered that way..

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Ah, I had a feeling it was something to do with 'ghost' , thanks for the info I will look into it.

Do you happen to know any free versions?

if I had to get it asap I'd just pirate it, but I have never had to as norton desciminates itelf on society like a virus... its been bundled with everything that I've bought from games to motherboard and hard-drives and keyboards... and given to me free by my university to boot... norton ghost should be readily available for free or atleast a time-trial type at stores that sell hard-drives or even online...

Hmm, I'm having difficult (I've tried acronis so far) because this is the situation:

I have a 160gb Seagate HD with the OS progs and docs all onto the whole thing with no partitions or anything.

I want to be able to have Windows on the 36gb Raptor exactly like they are on my main hd as well as all the programs all installed but im wondering whether thats possible now

I'm downloading NOrton ghost to try the trial so Ill see how i get on with that. .

Just try and find the ghost.exe file, or extract it from the trial, if possible. Ghost should never actually be installed. Anyway, when you do finally get Ghost working, you can change partition sizes when you choose the destination, or leave the full 36 GB of the Raptor as one single partition.