Colnago_Man
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| posted on 8/1/09 at 08:54 AM |
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Cloning a XP Disk Drive
All these pictures of my car build have filled my 40gb disk on this PC. I'am pretty confident I can fit a new bigger drive but does anyone know
the best way of Cloning the two drives so I dont have to reinstall the OS and everything else?
Thanks
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cd.thomson
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| posted on 8/1/09 at 09:03 AM |
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Cloning is fairly straight forward if you have the software however fitting a larger drive internally along side the 40gb disc (your IDE cable should
have a master/slave position, so youd only need another oem hdd) or simply getting an external harddrive would be by far the most simple options.
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JohnN
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| posted on 8/1/09 at 09:23 AM |
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Why not just install another HDD and use it for data only, and leave the OS on your original drive, along with all installed programme files. That
way you'd just need to move the "data" to the new drive and continue as normal. You can get 1000Gb for approx £70 now, so the
sky's the limit
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Colnago_Man
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| posted on 8/1/09 at 09:54 AM |
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Sorry, should have added that the existing drive is starting to die, its clicking like crazy and had more bad sectors than it should. I'd really
like to loose the existing drive all together.
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BenB
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| posted on 8/1/09 at 09:54 AM |
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Yup. The two (or three  ) solution is my preferred choice. Put data on the big disk and the OS on the smaller. Then if you have to re-install
windows you don't have to lose your data or do a complicated back-up.
If you do want to clone it, however, Ghost is a nice bit of software....
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dhutch
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| posted on 8/1/09 at 11:06 AM |
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I would proberbly reinstall a fresh copy of windows onto the new HDD simply because its good to do that every now and again anyway.
- Then with both hdd's plugged in, just drag and drop the files over.
- Keep the old HDD as long as you feel it is usefull, the destroy, and despose.
Failing that, you want a floppy disk or something with some suitable disk software.
- A lot of the hdd manufactors have there own, i used maxtors 'maxblast ii' before now (apprently the newer versions only support maxtor
drives, the gits!)
- But yeah, then you just boot of the floppy disk, and use the (very basic) software to clone it over.
Another reason for not keeping the OS on the old disk is that the new one will almost certianly be faster perfoming.
Ive never been let down by the samsung harddisks have have just bought another 500gb spinpoint to go with my previous 200gb drive.
Dainel
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Rek
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| posted on 8/1/09 at 12:27 PM |
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Best thing is to Download and use Hirens boot disk or Bart PE to clone the drive using ghost.
message me if you cant find it and ill let you know where.
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