My hard drive sounds as if it may be on its last legs. Can the hard drive and XP operating system be copied/mirrored? I really don't want to lose the installed programs. I have a dell 4600 with windows pre-installed at the factory.
2007-03-03 05:37:09 · 6 answers · asked by john_e_29212 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Program in which you downloaded into the machine can be transfered to a jump drive. Programs that come with the windows OS canot be saved unless you invest in a CD to make a ghost copy.
2007-03-03 06:14:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anointed71 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
properly you've skipped over truly some data, (PATA SATA RAID?) yet in general the first stress besides up is C: it truly is the established carry close. The MBR the BIOS will examine is on the established carry close stress and the secondary carry close or established slave will then boot up it may grant you with a choce of XP living house or XP living house...you are able to try on the position to connect the cable on your 2 confusing drives and CD-ROM as a way to achieve the wanted result. you are able to do it manually yet i could attempt KISS technique first. Oh and BTW F*** microsoft they only desire you funds and also you may be taking it away by technique of imaging an identical license onto yet another gadget it truly is truly what that is about isn't it?
2016-12-05 04:48:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are two ways to do this.
1] The simplest way is to go to your local computer shops and see if they do hard drive transfers. You buy a new hard drive and they hook cables up and transfer everything over. It's simple.
2] Start burning everything to CD's that you want to keep. Get a new hard drive and re-install windows and then just get everything off the CD's. Big pain in the butt.
2007-03-03 05:44:21 · answer #3 · answered by B-Rad 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes get norton ghost and a new hard drive of equal size or larger...make sure the old drive is set to master and new as slave (little jumper setting on each drive)...create a disk image of your old drive and copy it to the new drive...note to clone windows sucessfully you'll need a floppy disk drive to create a boot disk for ghost to load onto to. then boot to the floppy then while windows is not loaded you can created the disk image on the new drive. once it is done shutdown your pc and set the old drive to slave and new to master and boot it should then boot from the new drive
im not 100% sure but i think the latest version of norton ghost supports creating boot disks on usb flash drives for those with no floppy drives
2007-03-06 13:50:56 · answer #4 · answered by david_m_grogan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope you have your data backed up. You can either take it to a shop and have them copy everything to a new HD, or you can purchase a program like Ghost and clone your HD.
2007-03-06 20:45:05 · answer #5 · answered by Kainoa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-03-03 05:52:21 · answer #6 · answered by manny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋