Copying OS to new HDD

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James E Middleton

A few weeks or a month or so ago I saw a thread that mentioned several
applications for copying the contents of the current drive to a new drive.
I've searched and searched to no avail. Besides Ghost, which doesn't seem to
work with my configuration, does anyone have any suggestions?

My situation: SATA 80 GB, Dual boot with 3 partitions - Windows 2000,
Wnidows XP Pro, and a small storage partition. I want to migrate to a 120 GB
IDE drive, and adjust the size of the partitions if possible.

TIA
 
James E Middleton said:
A few weeks or a month or so ago I saw a thread that mentioned several
applications for copying the contents of the current drive to a new drive.
I've searched and searched to no avail. Besides Ghost, which doesn't seem to
work with my configuration, does anyone have any suggestions?

My situation: SATA 80 GB, Dual boot with 3 partitions - Windows 2000,
Wnidows XP Pro, and a small storage partition. I want to migrate to a 120 GB
IDE drive, and adjust the size of the partitions if possible.

TIA
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www.bootitng.com

There is a 30 day full functioning free trial.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."
 
I received a full version when I purchased an Iomega external drive. I tried
it on two different systems with the same results, after choosing
preferences and rebooting, nothing happened.

On one system, the C drive was IDE, on the other SATA. I went through all
the help files, downloaded the latest patches, even tried adding switches to
the command lines, nothing. It was pretty frustrating.

The latest version looks better but after what I went through with this
version, I hesitate.

I'm think I'm going to try True Image.
 
James said:
I received a full version when I purchased an Iomega external drive. I tried
it on two different systems with the same results, after choosing
preferences and rebooting, nothing happened.

On one system, the C drive was IDE, on the other SATA. I went through all
the help files, downloaded the latest patches, even tried adding switches to
the command lines, nothing. It was pretty frustrating.
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When I used Ghost 2003 to clone my C: drive I had to boot into Safe Mode
before it would properly, but after that it has worked fine.
 
James E Middleton said:
Any idea about the limitations of the trial?
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IIRC, it's 15 days of full functionality, then unlimited time of no
functionality.

The Acronis True Image trial works very well. I've used it on a number of
systems to migrate to new drives.

HTH
-pk
 
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