Thinking of getting a new P.C. and was wondering is there an easy way of copying the contents of the hard drive on the old to the new so i don't have to install every thing from scratch?

cheers manners.

 

norton ghost

 

IMHO I would do a fresh install and then just copy photos etc over. The OS usually gets in a right old mess when you make MB changes and althought it will eventually work you will not get the same performance as a fresh install.

 

Backup and restore on the same PC I use Ghost. However I don't think it will work if you are changing core stuff like mother board, processor, graphics card & sound card. Much easier to perform a new install, patch everything upto date and copy your old data across.

You could always fit your old drive as a slave and just copy stuff across.

 

yeah or just back it up onto dvd's etc, best to give it a fresh start and yes, ghosting onto different hardware specs is usually a no no unless you take precations

 

If one partition is just data, ie folders and files then ghost will work fine. As said for the OS you need a fresh install for a new mobo, cpu etc.

 

Thanks for the info think i will back up the data.