Rexbo
December 9th 03, 02:20 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>Could anybody tell me if you can copy the contents of
one
>hardrive to another? I'm upgrading to a new HD and would
>like to use it as my main drive and format old one to
use
>as a backup drive.
>
>Thanks in advance
>.
>It sounds like you might be talking about 2 different
tasks. If you make your new HD the primary you will need
to install the OS onto that drive. Once you have
formated and installed the OS onto that drive you can
then "slave" your old drive and still have access to all
of the files on that drive.
I am assuming that your current file system is FAT or
FAT32 and not NTFS. That doesn't make the task impossible
but it can make things a bit more "touchy".
Good luck.
Rexbo
>Could anybody tell me if you can copy the contents of
one
>hardrive to another? I'm upgrading to a new HD and would
>like to use it as my main drive and format old one to
use
>as a backup drive.
>
>Thanks in advance
>.
>It sounds like you might be talking about 2 different
tasks. If you make your new HD the primary you will need
to install the OS onto that drive. Once you have
formated and installed the OS onto that drive you can
then "slave" your old drive and still have access to all
of the files on that drive.
I am assuming that your current file system is FAT or
FAT32 and not NTFS. That doesn't make the task impossible
but it can make things a bit more "touchy".
Good luck.
Rexbo