Is it possible to temporarily plug in a second hard drive,wait for the second hard drive to download all the data from the old hard drive and when its done loading, turn off my computer and unplug the old hard drive and have the new hard drive plugged in as my primary hard drive?
2006-08-17 10:26:37 · 5 answers · asked by bluevoltagex@sbcglobal.net 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
If you had mirroring software, you probably could.
You'd need to change the dip switches on the drives before and after the data transfer. Plug in the slave, mirror (ghost) the primary onto the slave, change switch on slave to master, and reboot.
Should work, might have to copy a few of the boot files onto the new hd to ensure it works.
2006-08-17 10:32:56 · answer #1 · answered by p_rutherford2003 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not without a HD backup utility. If you simply transfer all files from a running windows system harddrive 2 things will happen that will cause problems.
1. Any files that is in use will not copy. This means a number of necessary system files will not get onto the new harddrive.
and
2. A regular copy process from one harddrive to another will run into issues with windows registry entries pointing to a different drive.
Norton Ghost or a tool like it could be used to do what you ask.
2006-08-17 10:33:12 · answer #2 · answered by bill91173 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi
Is it possible without any softwae.just open u r CPU remove u r machine CD-ROM IDE cable and plug in second Hard-Disk and restart u r machine and go to the BIOS and select second Hard-Disk as a secondary Hard-disk then save the changes and restart it then copy u r data u r old Hard-Disk to new Hard-Disk .
Bye
2006-08-17 20:53:51 · answer #3 · answered by pawan b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While the data is duplicated fine; it won't boot in a simple file copy.
2006-08-17 10:32:34 · answer #4 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes if you use drive image backup software such as Ghost.
2006-08-17 10:31:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋