Moving from one HD to another?

[MrEd]

OK, I just bought a 20 gig hd and got it all installed and everything. My question now is: How do I move everything from my 8gig HD to my 20gig HD? Do I really have to go out and buy driveimage or ghost? I know I can't just copy everything because of the boot sector and all. I also want to be able to rename the drives. Right now the 8 gig is drive c: and the 20 is d, although in my bios it's the other way around, (i installed the new drive as the master) how do I rename them when this is done?

Any suggestions?

-MrEd
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BTW, system is as follows:
Win2K
Gigabyte GA-7ZX
AMD Duron 700MHZ
288MB PC-100 RAM
WD-20gig HD
WD-8gig HD
ATI Rage Fury Pro Video Card
Creative Ensoniq Sound Card
Sony CD-RW
Acer 32x CDROM


[This message has been edited by MrEd (edited 02-05-2001).]

[Richard_Cranium72]

You can copy all your documents and pictures just fine by drag and drop.

The contents of the O/S can be done the same way, the only one that will not move is the Win386.swp file as it is in use while operating windoze.

Just do a fresh install, it don't take that long unless you got a horde of hardware to add drivers for..

DrVette

[Rat]

Your new WD hard drive should have come with a floppy with a "EZ Drive" label on it. That floppy has a utility on it to copy evrything over from one drive to another. I f you did not get a floppy with the drive, you can go to the Western Digital site and download the utility for copying. The utilty is here: http://www.wdc.com/service/ftp/drives.html it's called "EZ-Install"

Once everything is copied over, you have to physically change the jumpers on the drives so the old drive is the slave on the first IDE channel (or slave or master on the second IDE channel) and the new drive is the master on the first IDE channel - this will arrange the drives to make the new Drive C: and the old drive D:. Once the new drive boots and everything works the way it's supposed to, you can format the old drive.

Rat...



[This message has been edited by Rat (edited 02-05-2001).]

[MrEd]

Richard, just tried that, it stops copying when it hits ntkrnl or something, (didn't write it down) so that won't work.

Rat, already tried that option. It won't copy anything with an NTFS partition.

Anyone else?

-MrEd
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[FoolishDave]

Xxcopy is a freeware utility that will, I think, do what you want. Like DOS xcopy, only it does more, preserves long file names, and so on. Check out this link...
http://www.datman.com/xxcopy/#xxtb_10

It's a bit complex getting all the switches right, but when I 've used it it worked fine.

Also, I recently moved WinMe from a 6.4 gig WD drive to a 20 gig WD drive, and the WD "Data Lifeguard" software worked perfectly...at least after I downloaded the newest version. The version that came with the 20 gig drive on a floppy did not work properly with WinMe. Might be a newer version on the WD website that will work for you.

Dave

[FoolishDave]

Xxcopy is a freeware utility that will, I think, do what you want. Like DOS xcopy, only it does more, preserves long file names, and so on. Check out this link...
http://www.datman.com/xxcopy/#xxtb_10

It's a bit complex getting all the switches right, but when I 've used it it worked fine.

Also, I recently moved WinMe from a 6.4 gig WD drive to a 20 gig WD drive, and the WD "Data Lifeguard" software worked perfectly...at least after I downloaded the newest version. The version that came with the 20 gig drive on a floppy did not work properly with WinMe. Might be a newer version on the WD website that will work for you.

Dave

[emcron]

I used xcopy just a few days ago, after finding out about it here. And it worked perfectly.

[Warthog]

I just copied the regular files to the new hd while using my "old" hd as the boot (of course). Then I used DOS xcopy to copy the system files.

Warthog

[MrEd]

Thanks all,
I had a dream last night about this. (Don't you just hate that?!!) What if I just do a complete backup of my existing drive to my new drive, then format my existing drive? I may still have to reinstall windows to get the boot sector right?

-MrEd
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[MrEd]

Um, Nevermind!
I just took a look at that xxcopy link, and I think that will work just fine for me.

I'll let you know.

-MrEd
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