I bought a new hard drive and am in the process of swapping it. I have been imaging the old one onto it so I don't have to reinstall everything and found a free program called g4u which runs from an iso image boot cd. I'm about to put it all back together now to see if it's worked.
Good Luck
Not a Norton product fan apart from 'Norton Ghost' possibly symantec now
Got me out of the Smelly a couple of times.
gost's disk images very well.
regards
Agriv8
It seems to have worked but the drive is 160 gig in bios but windoze reports it as 40 gig same as the old one. Some more fiddling about required I
think 
Why dont you just use the old drive as a secondary Pete,saves a load of mither.
Cheers,
Bob
I will do but I wanted the new faster 160gig drive as the boot drive but it reports it as 40 gig in control panel although bios recognises it so I
think the image software has copied the partition info to it and confused windows. Where's a partition manager when you need one?
The software you used probably didn't resize the partition to the new drive size.
There may be an option in the software for this. I know ghost and drive image can both do this. They copy across the data and then expand the
partition to the full size of the new drive.
Another option is to use partition magic to resize the partition on the new drive. All fairly simple to do. Not sure if there is a free util to do
this though.
I'm running off a Knoppix Live CD now I use Ubuntu on a computer upstairs and thought I'd just try this out, it's gone straight onto
the net via another computer running windoze 2000 without me touching a thing, how cool's that? If it wasn't for all the stuff I use on here
I'd run Ubuntu on here as well. I'll have to stop messing about now and get this put right so I can play out tomorrow 
I used acronis true image by far the easiest most user friendly imaging software i have used
I used a program called Move Me to migrate programs, data, etc., from a Windows 98 computer to a new computer with a fresh install of XP Pro.
Everything worked with no re-installs, so I am a big fan.
It can be used for a new HD:
http://www.spearit.com/new_drive.html
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Originally posted by ko_racer
Another option is to use partition magic to resize the partition on the new drive. All fairly simple to do. Not sure if there is a free util to do this though.
format it first the use the image CD
If that doesn't work im out of ideas, personally i find it easier to use a secondary drive to back up data and just do a fresh install every 3
months, ull find the computer is much fast as an image will have all the crap thats slowing the PC down as well. if its a badly made imaging program
it will also be fragmented when u install it all again.
John
That's my next plan . I've got gparted on a cd somewhere with my linux stuff and didn't think of using it David, I'll have a
look for it and give it a try. It's all good fun isn't it and a learning thing as well.
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
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Originally posted by ko_racer
Another option is to use partition magic to resize the partition on the new drive. All fairly simple to do. Not sure if there is a free util to do this though.
Do a google for "gparted" - you have to burn it onto a CD-ROM, then boot from that disk. When it starts it asks a few questions about your computer (screen resolution, etc) then opens a Linux operating system in the computer's RAM. All you have to do is run the partition editor (there's not much else!), select what you want to do, and then shut down and reboot in your favourite OS.
Worked well for me, and 100% free and legal.
David
Dos, Floppy disks.......... didnt know anyonebothered with them anymore.... especialy floppy disks, everythings bootable these days. you can even run an OS from a thumb drive
I still use boot disks when I have to but a lot of my floppies don't read from one machine to the next, I reckon it's an azimuth thing. I've copied it with the g4u then resized with gparted, it took about 30 minutes to copy the 40gig drive and 30 seconds to resize it. There's probably easier ways to do it but it was free (if you don't count burning two disks) and pretty painless. I've just got to swap the jumpers to run as master now.
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Originally posted by JackNco
Dos, Floppy disks.......... didnt know anyonebothered with them anymore.... especialy floppy disks, everythings bootable these days. you can even run an OS from a thumb drive
I'm surprised how painless the operation has been and how little it's cost, £37 delivered for the drive and two free programs that will get used again whenever I build another computer but that won't be for a while yet as the old ones are still reliable and quick enough for what we do. If I see a decent AMD socket A processor cheap enough I may be tempted to up the old one a bit more but it's not desperate.
what u got now CPU wise? and what would you like?
ill keep an eye out for you. personaly i think its better to have a slow CPU and tons of ram than havening a fast CPU and 512MB of ram