Scooby7

Hi i have a 10gig drive running my pc and a 80gig in there as well now i would like to replace the 10 gig with another bigger drive basically what I have been trying to find out is whats the easiest way to copy a entire Harddrives content to another HDD including O/S so that i can then use that as my master drive.

I know there is plenty of backup programs out there and XP has its own but none seem to offer the option of full drive copy, was thinking maybe copying it all over in DOS???

any help would be helpfull, probably an easy way im sure

cheers
Leslie

molko

Norton Ghost will do and exact(bit by bit) replica of your hard disk

olliecampbell

iTrader: (3)

Yeah Norton Ghost is the best and easiest way of doing it.

Nick

Like he said.

class_A

Ghost will do it but you'll have to buy/obtain

Most hard disk manufacturers offer free, basic tools to do a drive-to-drive copy. Eg. Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Tools. I've no experience of this though.

Cheers,
Alex

Pete The Biker

As far as I can recall I just installed the new drive as a slave, copied the master's contents to the new drive using Explorer, and then set the slave drive as the master, and removed the original drive.

All worked OK (but it was a few years ago and my memory may have faded a little).


Pete The Biker

Scooby7

Thanks alot for all your replies and help, I did try a older version of norton ghost but did not manange to get to grips with it think i need to try newer version see how that goes.

i also tried to do an exact copy by just dragging entire master drive's contents to slave in explorer but kept telling me could not copy some of the files as they where being used and then stopped the process.

Thanks
Leslie

Fig

Copying from Master to Slave will not work, as files that are in use at the time (most of the operating system) and hidden system files will not be copied. The only way is to use a bit copier like Ghost, DriveCopy or one of the drive manufacturers own utilities, as previously suggested.