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Can I transfer "complete OS + contents" to new HDrive w/o reinstall?
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| juliannecarol@gmail.com 2005-11-30, 8:46 pm |
| XP sp2,
HD1-40g
HD2-120g
How, or can I transfer my complete working system + software, folders,
etc. to a
new hard drive..... without doing a new formatted REINSTALL??
I am quite happy with my system now, but I have growing databases and
don't think I could
find all the old discs anyway.
I saw the Acronis True Image 9 vs Norton Ghost, and thought one of
these softwares might
solve my problems.
Anyone with an idea on the subject??
thank you, tampa
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| Howard Kaikow 2005-12-01, 2:46 am |
| <juliannecarol@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1133404317.583058.310870@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> XP sp2,
> HD1-40g
> HD2-120g
>
> How, or can I transfer my complete working system + software, folders,
> etc. to a
> new hard drive..... without doing a new formatted REINSTALL??
>
> I am quite happy with my system now, but I have growing databases and
> don't think I could
> find all the old discs anyway.
>
> I saw the Acronis True Image 9 vs Norton Ghost, and thought one of
> these softwares might
> solve my problems.
>
> Anyone with an idea on the subject??
I just got Ghost 10 this week.
User's Guide gives explicit instructions for copying drives.
I expect that Acronis True Image 9 would do the same.
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http://www.standards.com/; See Howard Kaikow's web site.
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| tanstafl 2005-12-01, 7:46 am |
| On 30 Nov 2005 18:31:57 -0800, juliannecarol@gmail.com wrote:
>XP sp2,
>HD1-40g
>HD2-120g
>
>How, or can I transfer my complete working system + software, folders,
>etc. to a
>new hard drive..... without doing a new formatted REINSTALL??
>
>I am quite happy with my system now, but I have growing databases and
>don't think I could
>find all the old discs anyway.
>
>I saw the Acronis True Image 9 vs Norton Ghost, and thought one of
>these softwares might
>solve my problems.
>
>Anyone with an idea on the subject??
>
>thank you, tampa
Terabyte http://www.terabyteunlimited.com has a utility called
Copywipe that will do what you want - it worked well for me when I had
system miseries. It can make an exact sector by sector copy, or in
your case it can resize the partitions on the fly to fit a larger
target disk. It runs from a bootable diskette. It also (in a
separate run) can securely wipe all sectors of the source disk if you
want to sell or otherwise get rid of it.
--
Pete Gebel pfgebel(deletethis)@crisperiodcom
Have the best day possible - all things considered
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| Butterfield 2005-12-01, 7:46 am |
| On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:09:57 -0500, "Howard Kaikow"
<kaikow@standards.com> wrote:
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><juliannecarol@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:1133404317.583058.310870@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
I did this just this week using ATI9. I did however need to use
Partition Magic to expand the partition on the new drive to the full
size of the drive after the restore. Perhaps I missed a restore
setting in the True Image program. It did work wonderfully.
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| Thanks for the reply (ies), I used Acronis True Image 9 ($49), and it
went smooth as silk.
I SLAVED the NEW drive and "cloned" the old master in about 20 minutes
after a reboot.
After it cloned ATI actually shut the system down so I could master the
new drive and
change the jumpers. It actually asked if I wanted to wipe the original
clean. I have never
understood the partition reasoning.
I am impressed (it doesn't take much to do that!).
thanks again.... tampa
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| Butterfield 2005-12-02, 5:48 pm |
| On 2 Dec 2005 07:05:50 -0800, "tampa" <juliannecarol@gmail.com> wrote:
>Thanks for the reply (ies), I used Acronis True Image 9 ($49), and it
>went smooth as silk.
kudos
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