Upgrading System Disk

[Dave]

And the answer is......

There is a product called Casper XP from Future Systems
Solutions that does the trick perfectly. It cost $35, but
its well worth it. It took about 2.5 hours to copy 20GB
from my C: drive to the new drive then I swapped the
drives and rebooted from the new drive and it worked
perfectly.

There's two other programs that may work too...
DriveSpace from PowerQuest ($50) and Ghost from Norton
($70), but they were more expensive and since I only plan
to do this once in a blue moon, I didn't think it would
be worth the extra money. Besides DriveSpace does not
specifically mention it works with Windows XP.

Of course this should be a utility built into Windows XP,
but I won't mention that. ;)

Dave


Dave

>-----Original Message-----
>For God's sake, can't Microsoft make it easier to
upgrade
>your system disk? Obviously not.
>
>I'm trying to replace my C: drive with a bigger, faster
>one and I don't want to re-install Windows XP. I just
want
>to copy the existing drive as-is to the new one. Why is
>that so hard? I've been working on this now for 2 days.
>Anyone have a recipe for success?
>
>Dave
>.
>

[Earl F. Parrish]

"Dave" > wrote in message
...
> And the answer is......
>
> There is a product called Casper XP from Future Systems
> Solutions that does the trick perfectly. It cost $35, but
> its well worth it. It took about 2.5 hours to copy 20GB
> from my C: drive to the new drive then I swapped the
> drives and rebooted from the new drive and it worked
> perfectly.
>
> There's two other programs that may work too...
> DriveSpace from PowerQuest ($50) and Ghost from Norton
> ($70), but they were more expensive and since I only plan
> to do this once in a blue moon, I didn't think it would
> be worth the extra money. Besides DriveSpace does not
> specifically mention it works with Windows XP.
>
> Of course this should be a utility built into Windows XP,
> but I won't mention that. ;)
>
> Dave
>
>
> Dave
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >For God's sake, can't Microsoft make it easier to
> upgrade
> >your system disk? Obviously not.
> >
> >I'm trying to replace my C: drive with a bigger, faster
> >one and I don't want to re-install Windows XP. I just
> want
> >to copy the existing drive as-is to the new one. Why is
> >that so hard? I've been working on this now for 2 days.
> >Anyone have a recipe for success?
> >
> >Dave
> >.
> >

Didn't the new drive come with a utility for doing that? I replaced
my boot drive with a larger drive and it worked properly. It works
faster if you temporarily put your replacement drive on the second
IDE channel instead of the same. That way both drives are not
sharing the same data cables. It still took a while because it was
operating as 16-bit rather than 32-bit transfers. If files are in
use they cannot be copied, so it would not work within Windows.

--
Earl F. Parrish