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You may wish to visit the support website of the manufacturer of your
new hard drive and see if they have a free utility program that you can use to
accomplish this task. For example, if you have a new Western Digital drive,
you can download their free Data Lifeguard Tools which includes "drive-to-drive
copy capability" (Ref: http://support.wdc.com/download/).
drives/#diagnostic
IBM and Hitachi
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
Maxtor
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/index.htm
Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html
Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/download/
www.westerndigital.com
Or you can purchase Norton Ghost and create an "image"
of your old hard drive:
Norton Ghost 2003
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
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| I want to replace my PC's Hard drive. Is it going to work
| if I copy everything from the old HDD to a new one,
| instead of installing XP from a scratch on the new HDD.
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