Ghosting C: drive (questions)

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Dulak

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atm I have a WD 750aaks as my C drive and I just ordered 2 640aaks (faster).

I'd rather use my 750 as storage and one of the 640s for my main C drive.

What program (free or other) will transfer all info from my current C drive to the new one.

And once I do this. What command do I use to manually set my computer to recognize my new drive as the new C drive (letter).

thanks
 
Western Digital has software designed to make adding or moving your entire current operating system setup to a new drive. If you have retail drives it should be on the CD included in the box, but if not, head over to www.westerndigital.com and grab the Data Lifeguard tools. It'll offer drive-to-drive functionality somewhere in the options and it's basically a point and click type operation, the software will handle everything.

When it's done, just shut down the machine, remove the old "primary" drive and replace it with the new one and voila, should be back up and running without issue. One tip: you need to do something with the old "primary" drive because it'll still be marked as Active and you can't have two Active Partitions in a machine at the same time, it'll muck up the boot process. Could use Parted Magic to remove the partitions or whatever and make that 750GB drive empty and leave it in, however. There's a lot of options at that point, just don't leave it as an Active drive.
 
You can use DriveImageXML to image the 750 to one of the 640's
Just make sure that you only have one HDD plugged in when you start up the PC after imaging to the new drive
 
find an OOOOOld copy of norton ghost 8, bootable. should do all your asking on the fly
 
Well I used the WD data lifeguard tools to copy the drives. Looked like it worked fine - there were 5 files it couldnt copy but the program said it wouldnt matter.

I couldnt boot from the new drive said error with the OS.

I tried a few different methods - ie taking out the 750WD altogether didnt matter.

I also tried the driveimage xml - I couldnt copy it said the new drive had to be same size or larger.

Do I need to partition the new drive in a certain way to make it the C drive or something - I just did the NTFS.
 
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