I have a copy of drive copy 4.0 which unfortunately does not work with XP. I need a larger c drive and need help finding the appropriate software that will let me make a mirror copy onto the new larger drive so I don't have to reload programs and files already on my current c drive.
2007-04-29 00:36:20 · 11 answers · asked by Gerry297 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
you won't need any software to copy one hdd to another if done correctly. this will require you to go inside the computer and do some switching around of jumpers on the hard drives.
1.switch the jumper on the old hard drive and make it a slave drive.
2. switch the jumper on the new hard drive and make it the master hard drive.
3.now switch the position of the hard drives inside your computer to coinside with the cable that connects the IE: master and slave which if you have a newer computer will be marked on the cable at the plug in strip.
4. now your ready to format the new hard drive.
5. go to my computer click it on.
6. rt. click on drive C and choose format.
7.make sure you format in the same format as the old hard drive (IE: fat 32 or ntfs).
8.once it is formatted go to control panel click on file and settings transfer. now transfer the files from the slave drive( your original hard drive) to drive C.The slave drive will show a new letter for the drive such as D,E,F,G etc.
8. once transfer is complete all you have to do is disconnect the old Hdd.and you will be set to go.
9.If this sounds complicated or you don't understand parts of it please have a qualified IT person do this for you.
If you wish to spend money another way of doing this would be to buy a USB flash drive(make sure it has enough GB's to hold your computers complete Hdd contents do a file transfer to the flash drive.
then hook up your new Hdd, format it and download the contents of the flash drive to the new Hdd.
this is the simpler of the 2 but will cost between 40.00 to 60.00 for a flash drive depening on the size.
2007-04-29 01:07:10 · answer #1 · answered by Cyber-Medic 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Norton's Ghost does a fairly good job of making a copy of your hard drive to a new hard drive without having to reload everything.
2007-04-29 00:44:13 · answer #2 · answered by Mortis 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are free tools such as XXClone or Drive Image XML
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/xxclone/xxclone.html
http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm
But by far the best mirroring/drive clone software is Acronis True Image 10 - I successfully did what you are trying to do with Acronis.
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/acronis-true-image/trueimage.html
2007-04-29 01:00:17 · answer #3 · answered by zoomjet 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Congratulations on defraging your C drive! I know from experience that that is quite a chore! It should be safe to defrag your external drive as well. All you are doing is removing or repairing bad files. You won't be deleting any good ones.
2016-05-21 05:06:05 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your C drive is just a partition of a large hard disk..(your hard disk has more than one partitions.may it be your drive C and your drive D) you can make your drive C space bigger by getting free space from your drive D. Partition Magic can do this..
but if you really want to copy your drive C to a new hard drive..it's ok as long as windows is not installed there.(if windows is installed there, i don't think you can do that..) if not, you can install the new hard drive then just copy it there...
2007-04-29 00:48:00 · answer #5 · answered by habuti 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hey! wait. I hope your main objective is to make your C: drive bigger so that you have more space to work with, don't really strain yourself. You can use a software called Norton Partition magic which is safe and really reliable. With this software you can really resize your partition thus creating a larger space in one drive and reducing the other one.
Even though this is a commercial software its in wide use today and as good as freeware.
Check this rapidshare webpage :
rapidshare.de/users/GT2PIA
Thanks and good luck,
Kakes
2007-04-29 00:47:37 · answer #6 · answered by The Subtle Kind 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most hard drive manufacturer's include free tools to do what you want on their web site.
Buy a new drive, then download the tool.
2007-04-29 00:44:34 · answer #7 · answered by ELfaGeek 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just slave the old drive as a D drive and the new one as the C drive
2007-04-29 00:45:35 · answer #8 · answered by Pyria 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, you can use Norton Ghost to create a ghost image and then ghost it onto your new drive.
2007-04-29 00:43:51 · answer #9 · answered by The Alchemist 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could try Norton Ghost or Powerquests DriveImage.
2007-04-29 00:44:18 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋