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Disc to Disc Transfer ?


MrWiggly

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I am replacing my U/S 20G "C" drive with a new 60G disc and wish to copy all my files, including WXp Home + SP2 to the new drive.

 

I have set up the new

(Formatted) drive as "Slave" and have tried to copy "C" across to it.

 

The only "DOS" option I can find is within XP itself, and this will not let me transfer some files because they are "In USE".

 

The only DOS files I have on floppy are years out of date .. and useless !!

 

Any advice please ??

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it wont work ,i found that while c:/ is in use it cannot be moved (and become bootable),pop over to the Maxtor site and get a copy of Maxblast it does all the transfering for you ,you can do the rest of the partition formatting within XP then transfer your other partions to your new drive

it will inform you (if you havent a maxtor drive) you havent a maxtor drive but still works

it worked but in the end i clean installed just to get rid of the crap.

read the instructions carefully ,its very clever on reboot it automatically transfers c:/ to the new drive and reletters c:/ on your old drive ,then make the new drive master and old drive slave

 

[ 09. November 2004, 08:47 PM: Message edited by: chesters1 ]

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Gobio - only if moving to identical hardware and he is replacing a 20Gb with a 60Gb so they aren't.

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The new version of Norton Ghost should transfer your current disk to a new one, and resize it to whatever new size you want (up to the 60Gb limit of your new drive, obviously. It might be worth transferring it to a 20Gb partition on the new drive, and use the free space for other partitions. You then need to swap the master and slave settings over.

I'm not sure, but if you do use Ghost you might need to re-register XP with Microsoft because of the hardware change.

Where's the 'ANY' key?

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Wag is correct. I use Ghost most days and it will clone a 20GB disk onto a 60GB disk no problem. If you have Windows XP you can still make a new DOS boot disk. It is one of the options when you format a floppy disk.

 

[ 11. November 2004, 04:31 PM: Message edited by: corydoras ]

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