Drive Image Delima...

[Ashton]

Ok, I'm concerned my HD is dieing, it's losing files, event log is showing disk errors, and I'm scared enough that I dont want to use it as my primary HD anymore...

I have 2 HDs, a 250gb (primary, C) and a 1000gb (external, D)

The 1TB has around 400gb used
The 250gb has around 200gb used

I want to copy my data, programs, and OS from the 250gb to the 1tb where the 1tb is bootable.

How can I do this without paritioning the 1TB drive?

 

[dbwillis]

without partitioning, your not looking good.

 

[Ashton]

That's what I feared... can anyone reccomend a good program for making an image of an active drive and then copying it to a *partition* on a second drive? (I've never tried it all of mine have wanted to format the second drive...

 

[InvisiBill]

Why don't you want to partition it? Trying to merge both drives into one partition may cause some issues with the OS. Simply making a 250GB partition at the beginning of the drive and resizing the existing one down to 750GB would leave you with the same C:/D: setup, just with a slightly smaller D: drive.

 

[Ashton]

Why don't you want to partition it? Trying to merge both drives into one partition may cause some issues with the OS. Simply making a 250GB partition at the beginning of the drive and resizing the existing one down to 750GB would leave you with the same C:/D: setup, just with a slightly smaller D: drive.

I have lost entire drives in the past due to failed re-partitioning. Once bitten and twice shy