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William B. Lurie
December 5th 03, 11:29 PM
I have XP on too small a hard drive.
I have a larger drive already formatted and running as "Slave".
I have PowerQuest Partition Magic and Drive Image.
Is there a straightforward procedure for moving everything
bodily from the Master to the Slave, after which I plan
on discarding the smaller hard drive?
William B. Lurie
Nicholas
December 5th 03, 11:36 PM
You'll need to make an "image" of your old hard drive and then
transfer the "image" to your new drive. To accomplish this,
you'll need to purchase a third-party program:
Norton Ghost 2003
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
or
PowerQuest Drive Image
http://www.powerquest.com/driveimage/
You may also 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/).
Fujitsu
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/#diagnostic
IBM and Hitachi
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT=20
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=20
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Nicholas
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"William B. Lurie" > wrote in message:
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| I have XP on too small a hard drive.
| I have a larger drive already formatted and running as "Slave".
| I have PowerQuest Partition Magic and Drive Image.
| Is there a straightforward procedure for moving everything
| bodily from the Master to the Slave, after which I plan
| on discarding the smaller hard drive?
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| William B. Lurie
Gene Hora
December 5th 03, 11:36 PM
If your version of Drive Image is 7.0 it has a feature for specifically
copying a drive when upgrading to a larger drive. Works much like Norton's
Ghost (and even better in my opinion).
"William B. Lurie" > wrote in message
...
> I have XP on too small a hard drive.
> I have a larger drive already formatted and running as "Slave".
> I have PowerQuest Partition Magic and Drive Image.
> Is there a straightforward procedure for moving everything
> bodily from the Master to the Slave, after which I plan
> on discarding the smaller hard drive?
>
> William B. Lurie
>
>
William B. Lurie
December 5th 03, 11:36 PM
Hmmmmm.....My Drive Image is only 5.0 .......
I'll ask around, and thank you.
WBL
Gene Hora wrote:
> If your version of Drive Image is 7.0 it has a feature for specifically
> copying a drive when upgrading to a larger drive. Works much like Norton's
> Ghost (and even better in my opinion).
>
> "William B. Lurie" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I have XP on too small a hard drive.
> > I have a larger drive already formatted and running as "Slave".
> > I have PowerQuest Partition Magic and Drive Image.
> > Is there a straightforward procedure for moving everything
> > bodily from the Master to the Slave, after which I plan
> > on discarding the smaller hard drive?
> >
> > William B. Lurie
> >
> >
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William B. Lurie
William B. Lurie
December 5th 03, 11:36 PM
Thank you, Nicholas....as I mentioned, I already have Drive Image..
I gues I'm going to have to read the 128-page Manual...
WBL
Nicholas wrote:
> You'll need to make an "image" of your old hard drive and then
> transfer the "image" to your new drive. To accomplish this,
> you'll need to purchase a third-party program:
>
> Norton Ghost 2003
> http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
>
> or
>
> PowerQuest Drive Image
> http://www.powerquest.com/driveimage/
>
> You may also 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/).
>
> Fujitsu
> http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-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
>
> --
> Nicholas
>
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>
> "William B. Lurie" > wrote in message:
> ...
>
> | I have XP on too small a hard drive.
> | I have a larger drive already formatted and running as "Slave".
> | I have PowerQuest Partition Magic and Drive Image.
> | Is there a straightforward procedure for moving everything
> | bodily from the Master to the Slave, after which I plan
> | on discarding the smaller hard drive?
> |
> | William B. Lurie
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William B. Lurie
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