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12-25-2002, 11:45 PM
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| Copying to new hard drive My dad received a new 80Gb WD SE hard drive for Christmas and wants to copy all the data from his old drive (20 Gb partitioned into two equal drives) to the new drive to get the full benefit of the 8Mb cache. What is the best way to do this? Is there a way to do it and keep the drive letters the same? Thanks. |
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12-26-2002, 12:14 AM
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| I forgot to mention that it is running Windows XP Home and he also has a copy of Partition Magic 8.0. |
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12-26-2002, 12:23 AM
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| Do you have a ghost/image program? One say to do it is to image the information off, then use the proggy to put it onto the new drive (putting it in as a slave at first), then pulling it out and putting it back in as the master, letting the bios find/configure it on startup (with the other drive not plugged in at all). It should put it in as the same drive letter as the old one. Then you can put the old one in as a slave/secondary drive.
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12-26-2002, 12:27 AM
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| Cool. Thanks Termite. I figured I'd need an image program but I wasn't sure how to get the same drive letters over to the new drive. |
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12-26-2002, 12:29 AM
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| You don't "have" to have the image program, but without it, you'd likely have to reinstall the OS and most or all of the software, etc... And as long as the main drive is on C, it should not try to do anything else. It's not likely the main hdd would be defined to anything other than C.
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12-26-2002, 01:04 AM
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| Because XP is being used here, isn't there something else that needs to be done? I don't remember exactly what it is since I don't use an "umbilical cord" operating system like XP, but it does have something to do with XP and its wanting to phone home to Mommysoft, I mean Microsoft. Something about the unique identifier? One can never again, thanks to MS, use imaging software with XP to get an exact image to use on a new HD because of some unique identifier it puts on each and every hard drive. Doesn't that identifier have something to do with the change in hardware? Now there is a different HD and now that identifier changes?  |
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