New SATA HD

[Sawtooth]

Im going to put a 120 GB Sata HD in me puter. Whats the best way of copying my current windows from my HD to this. My old HD is NTFS so I guess I format the new drive in the same way first from WinXP?


I just dont want the hassle of installing everything again as I have a lot of stuff installed (33 GB).

 

[Wilier]

Sawtooth.
Your right, install the new HDD and format it from XP, then, personally, I would use Norton Ghost to copy your current drive across. Then remove your current drive, set the new one to master and Bobs your uncle etc.

At least, thats how I did it.

 

[Sawtooth]

Thanks Matey. I guess Norton Ghost is relatively cheap?

I did have a copy of partition magic a long time ago and I think it had some utilities for doing this.

 

[Jonty]

Hi Sawtooth

Norton Ghost tends to be one of the most popular utilities for this kind of task, since that's what it's solely designed to do. But, that said, you could well be right that other utilities exist that could get it done.

Anyway, Norton Ghost is available to buy online from Symantec for £39.99. You can download it straight away, or pay a little extra to have it shipped to you. Whether it's worth the money is debatable. If you believe it could come in handy in the future, then it may well be sound investment. If you believe you're only going to use it once, then it seems rather a lot to spend, and with it being a specialist product it's unlikely you could use it for much else.

Still, it is held in high regard when it comes to carrying out these tasks, so the choice is yours

Good luck!

 

[Sawtooth]

Thanks for the info guys. Its running really sweet now and there's a real improvement in access time. Windows seems fresher somehow...ahhh

 

[Jonty]

Glad everything's working Sawtooth! Well done

Kind Regards

 

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Originally posted by Jonty
Hi Sawtooth

Norton Ghost tends to be one of the most popular utilities for this kind of task, since that's what it's solely designed to do. But, that said, you could well be right that other utilities exist that could get it done.

Anyway, Norton Ghost is available to buy online from Symantec for £39.99. You can download it straight away, or pay a little extra to have it shipped to you. Whether it's worth the money is debatable. If you believe it could come in handy in the future, then it may well be sound investment. If you believe you're only going to use it once, then it seems rather a lot to spend, and with it being a specialist product it's unlikely you could use it for much else.

Indeed. Ghost is sold really as an Enterprise tool for back up purposes, and for mass installation/syncronisation purposes (e.g my old sixth form college used a ghost image to set all the PCs back to normality when it was required. One set required 98 rather than 2k, so they reimaged an entire PC lab, then imaged it back agin, no questions asked).

As a home user tool, the price is steep and the use reduced. However, you still can't really beat it for backups, built in CD burning is nice and it is pretty flawless for what it does. I did buy it, 2002 version, though I am unlike to ever upgrade it, not until there's a new filesystem that needs it using on.