Installing a new hard drive

[JT Neville]

Ghost might work, but I don't use it personally.

Ok this isn't for the inexperienced and does not include
every step. It's jsut a rough outline to follow if you
are comfortable at working low level.

If I had to do this I would use Disk Manager to set the
new disc as active, then I would install both drives in a
2nd PC. Next I would enable all files and do a complete
copy of the OS partition from the old hard drive to the
primary partion on the new hard drive.

I'd then reinstall just the new hard drive into the
orignal PC and boot.

In the old days I would use a DOS disc to /mbr the disk
and then run just the start of the NT installer to reset
the boot partition info (which you can't copy via any
version of Windows), but I haven't found that necessary
with XP, just NT and NT2K.

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Might be easier to use the user migration tool, do a clean
install then import your user settings. But I haven't
played with that tool yet. Any way you look at it, it's
no walk in the park.


>-----Original Message-----
>I have a 20 gig hard drive on my Gateway Performance PC.
>I have the drive partitioned into two 9+ gig partitions.
>The drive with the OS on it is getting pretty full. So I
>purchased an 80 gig Western Digital, threw it in,
>formatted and partitioned it. XP has no problem
>recognizing the new hard drive and partitions. Now I'd
>like to copy my old OS drive to one of the partitions on
>the new hard drive. How do I accomplish this task?
>.
>