New Hard Drive

[Don N.]

I am running out of disk space and want to move all of my
files including XP to my new hard drive. What is the
easiest way to do this?

I want to be able to continue using my programs without
having to reload them, is this possible?

Can I just copy everthing from one disk to another and
have it run as it did before?

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Yes you can use Norton's Ghost 2003 which you would have
to purcahse. I my opinion I think it would be better to do a
full and clean install., but you pick your choice

Alvin


"Don N." wrote:

> I am running out of disk space and want to move all of my
> files including XP to my new hard drive. What is the
> easiest way to do this?
>
> I want to be able to continue using my programs without
> having to reload them, is this possible?
>
> Can I just copy everthing from one disk to another and
> have it run as it did before?

[Paul]

No, copying an OS like XP from one drive to another won't quite work.

The easiest way I found is to use either Ghost (I have 2002 and 2003) or
DriveImage ( I have 2002).

Do a complete disk copy from the old to the new drive and when you reboot to the
new drive, everything will be as it was before. The only problem I experienced
when doing this with Ghost 2003 was that the pagefile.sys apparently got
corrupted???. When I tried to open OE or IE, neither would work properly. I
"touched" the pagefile.sys on the boot partition and everything worked fine
after that. DriveImage presented no problems whatsoever.

Paul

"Don N." > wrote in message
...
> I am running out of disk space and want to move all of my
> files including XP to my new hard drive. What is the
> easiest way to do this?
>
> I want to be able to continue using my programs without
> having to reload them, is this possible?
>
> Can I just copy everthing from one disk to another and
> have it run as it did before?

[Alex Perez]

You can copy a disk to another using Imaging Software like Norton's Ghost or
PowerQuest DriveImage. I am not sure how this will work on diferent hard
drives. Why don't just transfer all your data to the new HD and leave your
old HD for XP and programs?

"Don N." > wrote in message
...
> I am running out of disk space and want to move all of my
> files including XP to my new hard drive. What is the
> easiest way to do this?
>
> I want to be able to continue using my programs without
> having to reload them, is this possible?
>
> Can I just copy everthing from one disk to another and
> have it run as it did before?

[Don N.]

I actually have it set up that way, but when I originally
loaded XP I ment to put it on the new drive and the data
on the old, but I did not realize that it was backwards
unitl after I had loaded everything.
>-----Original Message-----
>You can copy a disk to another using Imaging Software
like Norton's Ghost or
>PowerQuest DriveImage. I am not sure how this will work
on diferent hard
>drives. Why don't just transfer all your data to the new
HD and leave your
>old HD for XP and programs?
>
>"Don N." > wrote in message
...
>> I am running out of disk space and want to move all of
my
>> files including XP to my new hard drive. What is the
>> easiest way to do this?
>>
>> I want to be able to continue using my programs without
>> having to reload them, is this possible?
>>
>> Can I just copy everthing from one disk to another and
>> have it run as it did before?
>
>
>.
>

[Ed_]

In article >, "Alex says...
>
>You can copy a disk to another using Imaging Software like Norton's Ghost or
>PowerQuest DriveImage. I am not sure how this will work on diferent hard
>drives. Why don't just transfer all your data to the new HD and leave your
>old HD for XP and programs?
>
>"Don N." > wrote in message
...
>> I am running out of disk space and want to move all of my
>> files including XP to my new hard drive. What is the
>> easiest way to do this?
>>
>> I want to be able to continue using my programs without
>> having to reload them, is this possible?
>>
>> Can I just copy everthing from one disk to another and
>> have it run as it did before?
>
>
Ghost 2003 will image a NTFS or Fat32 XP install from one hard drive to another.
After ghosting the image just reverse the jumpers and position on the cable of
the two drives and boot into the new drive. Then just format the old drive and
use it for storage.

I've done this three times with success. Very painless.

Ed