Moving hard drives

[Matt]

I have installed a new Western Digital hard drive and
wish to set this up as my master with the old one being
the slave. Can anyone give me some advice on how to move
everything from the old to the new? I have a further
problem (I think) in that the old drive is FAT32 and the
new is NTFS...is this likely to cause problems or would
it be best to save my files to a CD and then reconfigure
the whole kit and kaboodle!
Any advice would be warmly received.

Matt.

[LVTravel]

If you aim is to only copy over data files you can do this with Windows
Explorer. I do this by opening two copies of Explorer, right clicking on the
taskbar and selecting Tile Windows Horizontally and setting the top window
as the source drive and the bottom window as the target drive. Drag and
drop from the top to the bottom to copy the drive information.


If you are attempting to copy programs you should invest in a program
called Ghost by Symantec. This will image the old drive and copy it to the
new drive. It will change the new drive to FAT 32. You can then change the
new FAT 32 drive to NTFS with the conversion routine provided with XP.

"Matt" > wrote in message
...
> I have installed a new Western Digital hard drive and
> wish to set this up as my master with the old one being
> the slave. Can anyone give me some advice on how to move
> everything from the old to the new? I have a further
> problem (I think) in that the old drive is FAT32 and the
> new is NTFS...is this likely to cause problems or would
> it be best to save my files to a CD and then reconfigure
> the whole kit and kaboodle!
> Any advice would be warmly received.
>
> Matt.

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Another option would be to
1. Install the new drive and install your OS and drivers.
2. Set harddrive 2 as Slave off the new drive and move
3. What data that needs to be moved.
4. How ever this is a longer progress but you have any problems
5. That's the way I would do it, in my opinion

Alvin


Matt wrote:

> I have installed a new Western Digital hard drive and
> wish to set this up as my master with the old one being
> the slave. Can anyone give me some advice on how to move
> everything from the old to the new? I have a further
> problem (I think) in that the old drive is FAT32 and the
> new is NTFS...is this likely to cause problems or would
> it be best to save my files to a CD and then reconfigure
> the whole kit and kaboodle!
> Any advice would be warmly received.
>
> Matt.

[I'm Dan]

"Matt" > wrote:
> I have installed a new Western Digital hard drive and
> wish to set this up as my master with the old one being
> the slave. Can anyone give me some advice on how to move
> everything from the old to the new? I have a further
> problem (I think) in that the old drive is FAT32 and the
> new is NTFS...is this likely to cause problems or would
> it be best to save my files to a CD and then reconfigure
> the whole kit and kaboodle!
> Any advice would be warmly received.

Sounds like what you're trying to do is replace your old disk with a new
one. In that case, the best (and cheapest) option is to go to www.wdc.com
and download the Data Lifeguard utility from Western Digital. It's designed
to do exactly what you want. Turn computer off, install both drives, boot
Data Lifeguard from floppy, choose the option to copy one drive to the
other, turn off computer, remove original drive and insert new drive in its
place, reboot with new drive. It's that simple.

If you want to reformat the old disk and keep it around as a slave drive,
that's fine, but do that later. Get it back up and running as a one-drive
system with the new disk first.