Swapping HD in XP

[Monolith]

I'm having a real hard time with this. I have a 6 Gig drive on my XP machine. I am replacing with a 60 Gig drive. Traditionally with 9x OS's I used XCOPY32 to transger all my data. Any suggestions? What is the best way of upgrading your primary drive if you're using Windows XP?

 

[corkyg]

Unless you already have Norton Ghost 2002, or PowerQuest's DriveImage 5, the best way I know is to get a copy of PowerQuest's DriveCopy 4/0 and create the two bootable floppies with it. Then you connect both drives, boot with DC4, and simply copy drive 1 to drive 2. It does it completely. If you are going to use them both later, go into ADVANCED on the menu and uncheck hide the source when finished. I use it every week to clone identical drives so I always have a 100% system and software backup that I can switch to with only a key switch. (5.25" mobile racks.)

It will take about 12 minutes to clone your 6 GB drive to the 60.

 

[Monolith]

Cool - thatnks. I have Norton Ghost but I can get a copy of DriveCopy and try that first.

 

[Junior0579]

I'm running XP and used Ghost to copy my 20 gig to a 60 gig and it worked just fine.