Upgrading Hard Drive in XP

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I have a 40GB HD and, according to the laws of nature, my data (term used very loosely) has expanded to the point that the drive is about 80% full. Performance is suffering and fragmentation is high. Hence, I intend to buy a much larger (faster, etc) drive

I have read in this forum that I should use a drive copy(ghosting, etc) type utility to transfer my current drive image to the new drive. Here is my question: Will following this procedure result in a large drive that still thinks that it is only 40GB in size

Thanks everyone!
 
Depends on whose software you use.

A simple, and doesn't cost another dime, way to do it is with XCOPY.

Format your new drive to whatever size it can be. Let's say D: is the drive
that's gotten to big for it's platter and E: is your new 60GB drive, or
whatever.

Start XP and from your desktop click Start|Run, then type in "CMD" and press
enter (no quotation marks).

At your C:> prompt type:

XCOPY D:\*.* E: /s /c /h /k

and press enter.

Every file from D: to E: will be copied, and it will continue even if an
error is encountered. It will also keep the same attributes. You can do
this from a floppy boot disk, too, assuming it has XCOPY or XCOPY32 and
their associated files on it. So if you don't want to do this in Windows
itself you can run it from DOS.

Voila! Everything on D: is now on E: and you have all the extra space on E:
to play with now. Assuming you have a backup somewhere "just in case" you
can then format D: and have it's entire capacity too.

Regards,
Bill Stewart
(NSAA - Nothing Special At All)



rcaryl said:
I have a 40GB HD and, according to the laws of nature, my data (term used
Click to expand...
very loosely) has expanded to the point that the drive is about 80% full.
Performance is suffering and fragmentation is high. Hence, I intend to buy
a much larger (faster, etc) drive.
I have read in this forum that I should use a drive copy(ghosting, etc)
Click to expand...
type utility to transfer my current drive image to the new drive. Here is
my question: Will following this procedure result in a large drive that
still thinks that it is only 40GB in size?
 
Many new hard drives come with a floppy so you can copy all of your files to
the new drive and enlarge the partition to the full size if you want. I
prefer to have different drives as it makes it easier for backups and
searches. With how large drive are I have one drive letter of 12 GB and I
just use it to copy program files so I don't need to dig out CD's to do
updates or add features.

Also nice to have a drive letter for backup!

Wayne


rcaryl said:
I have a 40GB HD and, according to the laws of nature, my data (term used
Click to expand...
very loosely) has expanded to the point that the drive is about 80% full.
Performance is suffering and fragmentation is high. Hence, I intend to buy
a much larger (faster, etc) drive.
I have read in this forum that I should use a drive copy(ghosting, etc)
Click to expand...
type utility to transfer my current drive image to the new drive. Here is
my question: Will following this procedure result in a large drive that
still thinks that it is only 40GB in size?
 
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