Migrating System Hard Disk

[Harold]

I have Windows XP Home installed on a hard disk using
FAT32. I've recently purchased a new hard disk and has
formatted it with NTFS, and I want to duplicate the
entire hard disk from the old one to the new one without
losing any data/settings. Is there a way to do that?

[Nicholas]

You may also wish to visit the support website of the manufacturer of =
your
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/).



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Nicholas

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"Harold" > wrote in message:
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| I have Windows XP Home installed on a hard disk using=20
| FAT32. I've recently purchased a new hard disk and has=20
| formatted it with NTFS, and I want to duplicate the=20
| entire hard disk from the old one to the new one without=20
| losing any data/settings. Is there a way to do that?

[Jack Gillis]

Yes, indeed. Use something like Drive Copy or Nortons Ghost or perhaps
Partition magi to copy your old disk to the new. You've not finished
yet because the new disk will be FAT32. Simply run XP's Convert command
to make it NTFS. See 'Convert' under XP's Help or type convert /? at
the command prompt.

It worked like a charm here using the Ghose/Convert method and I'm sure
it will for you.


Harold wrote:
> I have Windows XP Home installed on a hard disk using
> FAT32. I've recently purchased a new hard disk and has
> formatted it with NTFS, and I want to duplicate the
> entire hard disk from the old one to the new one without
> losing any data/settings. Is there a way to do that?