There's nothing particularly wrong with my Hard drive, but it's about 6 years old and getting quite noisy. I was just wondering if I can copy all the data across to a newer drive (and possibly a larger one) without losing my registry, or my outlook emails. In other words, does cloning do exactly what it says on the tin, or will I lose some things?
2006-09-10 06:31:49 · 6 answers · asked by LostSoulParry 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
You won't lose any data, everything will be as it is.
Almost all hard drives from major manufacturers bought at retail come with a set of tools that will do just what you ask. It's probably a good idea to get one of your local geeky neighborhood kids (or someone else you know with good computer skills) to help you with this, as the default settings for these tools may not be exactly what you want.
You may want to set up your new partitions differently to take advantage of the drive size, or you may want to make file system type changes (IE, FAT32 or NTFS), things like that. Having someone there who understands and can help is a boon.
One thing to be careful about is the age of your computer. If you have a drive that's six years old, that means that you have a computer that's six years old, and its BIOS (the basic guts that control the hardware before Windows runs) is not going to be capable of using a new, very large drive without some special software (called "overlay" software) like DiskManager. The good news is that the very same tools the drive comes with will take care of this for you.
But have a geek standing by just in case.
Good luck!
2006-09-10 06:42:02 · answer #1 · answered by MrPink 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is likely to clone everything including registry and personal files, but confirm that within your clone software specifications and options.
A better approach would be just burning your personal files to CDs or DVDs, as well as program installation setups for your downloaded programs (if you cannot redownload newer versions of them afterwards) and be sure of having CDs of the OS and main programs to reinstall them all shall your hard disk fail and you install a blank new one in its place. This way your new hard disk will have a cleaner registry free of entries of previously used programs, but you'll have to redo all your personal preferences (or, whenever possible, export them to files and burn them before you lose your HD, then import the prefs afterwards).
2006-09-10 06:41:47 · answer #2 · answered by alguem5468778 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Three others and I have used HP Intellimover with ease and success. Everything came through 100% except large programs requiring CD installation. It even transferred my IE Favorites. Of course, the operating system has to be in the other computer.
2006-09-10 07:11:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-25 23:44:33 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, but use CasperXP. It's free for 30 days. It makes an exact copy of everything on your hard drive.
2006-09-10 06:34:02 · answer #5 · answered by Jamie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
norton ghost is the best utility which i have seen. It takes the complete image of the hard disk and can dump the image in new hard disk.
2006-09-10 06:39:13 · answer #6 · answered by guruji 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋