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transfering data

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I wanna get one of those nice new shiny 74 GB Raptors, right now I got an IDE drive, what would be th ebest way to transfer all of the current data from the IDE drive over to the Raptor one?
 
Ghost or any other clone utility (including the Western Digital LifeGuard Diagnostic Suite which is free)

http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_1.htm

a few questions, is the target drive larger than the source?
or is the OS partition smaller than the new HDD?
 
both are diferent sizes and will have different partitions, couldn't I just network the data from one to another?
 
sure you could transfer the data that way, even the OS, but it wont boot from that HDD, it will lack the Master Boot Record

ghost provides you with the ability to expand and contract partitions (differences in the target and source) provided the actual data involved fits, it will leave out or add empty space to make up the difference, something the other free utilities wont

alternately you could do a standard 1 to 1 clone provided the target is larger than the source and then change the partition sizes with Partition Magic

you cant typically access the a number of exclusively locked files from inside the OS to copy them, the Master Boot Record, the Partition Table, File Allocation Table (FAT\FAT32) Master File Table (MFT\NTFS Basic Disk) Logical Disk Manager (LDM\NTFS Dynamic Disk) ect.

Of course you wouldnt want to copy the FAT or MFT as the target would have their own, if its just data
 
ummmm, I'll just re-format and re-install...... lol.... you guys are gonna make my head explode
 
consider this

it takes X to reinstall the OS
plus Y to patch, tweak and configure
plus Z to reinstall all the aps

now before the registry get gummed up with invaild entries
(actually it probably already is, but a quick cleaning should fix that)
would be the ideal time to image the HDD, so in the event that something gets sideways (virus, bad driver, corruption problem)
you can restore from the image in a very short period of time
(varies with the HDD or Partition Size)
 
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