Help Transferring Data from Old to New Hard Drive?

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Lucky Dog

Hello:

I have a WD 80GB hard drive in my computer at the moment and I'm
running out of room on it. This drive has 2 partitions on it.

I'd like to buy a new and much bigger HD (definitely another WD) and
would like to be able to copy or transfer all the data from the old HD
to the new drive. I mean OS and all. Is it possible? If yes, is there
an easy to do this?

My computer is 3 years old - AMD Athalon 1.2 GHz with 512MB memory.
Running WinXP and WinME (dual boot)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
 
There is a program "Norton Ghost" that does this. It would copy the HDD
exactly onto the new one, except it would allow you to resize. Where to get
it, I dunno. I think it comes with systemworks, a nice lil package to have
anyhow.

--Don
 
Lucky Dog said this...
Hello:

I have a WD 80GB hard drive in my computer at the moment and I'm
running out of room on it. This drive has 2 partitions on it.

I'd like to buy a new and much bigger HD (definitely another WD) and
would like to be able to copy or transfer all the data from the old HD
to the new drive. I mean OS and all. Is it possible? If yes, is there
an easy to do this?
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Check out the WD support site. I believe they have a free tool available to
do a full copy as you require.
 
There is a program "Norton Ghost" that does this. It would copy the
HDD exactly onto the new one, except it would allow you to resize.
Where to get it, I dunno. I think it comes with systemworks, a nice
lil package to have anyhow.

--Don
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I just used Norton Ghost 2002 (part of Norton System Works 2002) to do
exactly that. Created an image of the partition to cdrs & restored back
onto the new drive. Check around - you can probably pick up an old copy
of NSW 2002 for a couple of bucks now.

Tom
 
Thanks to Donald, Groove and Tmana for your help. I really appreciate
the time you took to reply to me. :-)
 
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