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disturbedsystem

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I have a 60gig hd and it works fine nothing wrong, but I want to buy a larger one like 120gig. Can I just unplug my hd that i have now and install the new one and load windows and verything and then plug the other hd back up and copy and paste everything from my old hard drive to the new one? Or is there another way to do it. I don't want to lose anything off my old hd, and I don't want to back everything up on CD's.

Thanks
 
disturbedsystem said:
I have a 60gig hd and it works fine nothing wrong, but I want to buy a larger one like 120gig. Can I just unplug my hd that i have now and install the new one and load windows and verything and then plug the other hd back up and copy and paste everything from my old hard drive to the new one? Or is there another way to do it. I don't want to lose anything off my old hd, and I don't want to back everything up on CD's.

Thanks
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That will work fine and is what I usually end up doing. For some reason, I think that some if not all ghost programs are made to be used with the same size hard drive. Correct me if I am wrong.
 
Also if I could or did do it the way I org. posted by unpluging my org. hd and installing my new one wouldn't the new hd also be C: drive. How would that work?
 
yes it will work just fine.

drive letters are only saved in windows, so your old 60gig would show up at d:, or e: if you leave it out and have a cd drive installed during windows install.
 
Paragon said:
That will work fine and is what I usually end up doing. For some reason, I think that some if not all ghost programs are made to be used with the same size hard drive. Correct me if I am wrong.
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Actually every one I know of will expand or shrink to any size hard drive that there is enough free space on.

EG: I have ghosted from a 6GB hd to a 40GB hd and had 1 40GB partition. I have also ghosted from a 40GB drive to a 20GB drive when the 40GB drive only had 7GB of used space.

==>Lazn
 
I really don't want to spend any money on a program just to switch hard drives. I'm not wanting to save any programs or anything like that. It's just that I have over a 1000's MP3's and I don't want to back them up on CD's. So could I just copy and paste from the old to the new?

This is what I want to do:
1. Unplug my hard drive that I have now
2. Install my new hard drive with windows XP
3. Plug my old hard drive back up and copy and paste from my old to new HD.
4. Take my old hard drive out.

Will this work?

Thanks
 
If all you are wanting to copy is mp3s, documents, pics, etc. then yes that will work fine. The advantage of using Ghost or equivalent is not having to re-load programs. Those can't just be copied over due to registry settings, shared files, dll's, etc.
 
/threadjack

speaking of ghosting programs, what are some good free ones? i can get ghost, it'll just take a while.

/terminatethreadjack
 
If you buy a retail hard drive, it usually comes with software to clone the drive.
I've done this in the past quite a few times with Maxtor and Western Digital drives.
EZ-Drive was the program that came with some of the drives. I ended up purchasing a full version of EZ-Drive so that I could clone any IDE drive (Version that comes with the hard drive only worked on that model drive for cloning)

I need to find something right now so that I can clone my SCSI Boot drives. I've got a couple of Seagate Cheetahs to replace the slower Seagate Barracudas and I am too lazy to re-install everything.
 
Best free cloning program would be Linux :p
Boot from a Knoppix CD and locate your drive assignments then use
Code: 
dd if=/dev/hdX of=/dev/hdY
be sure to replace X and Y with the actual device you are cloning.
This is of course assuming you are using IDE drives (SCSI is usually /dev/sdX etc.) and you are cloning to same size drive. I'm sure there are ways to cheat it and go to a smaller or larger drive...
 
If you just need storage space, keep the old drive connected, switch jumper to master. Install new drive with jumper to slave, on a 2 drive IDE cord. Right click on My computer, select manage, low level format new drive, and keep em both. No windows install, or ghost required. Yes I could be that lazy.
 
theres a tweak out there for xcopy that will do this all for free as well....been looking and can't find, but now i want it. ring any bells?
 
One Mans Trash said:
theres a tweak out there for xcopy that will do this all for free as well....been looking and can't find, but now i want it. ring any bells?
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xcopy32 /h/i/c/k/e/r/y

==>Lazn
 
Leadman584 said:
If you just need storage space, keep the old drive connected, switch jumper to master. Install new drive with jumper to slave, on a 2 drive IDE cord. Right click on My computer, select manage, low level format new drive, and keep em both. No windows install, or ghost required. Yes I could be that lazy.
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I'm going to use my old HDD in another computer I'm building.
 
GeForceX said:
:/ Is this supposed to be a joke? HICKERY?
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No joke. See for yourself: xcopy /?

But it looks to me like you should add /o/x to copy the user permissions etc.
Is that right? Has anyone here cloned a drive that way under Win XP? I'm going to have to do the same thing soon, and I don't want to end up spending nearly as much on Ghost as I do for the drive.
 
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