Like can yougo into my computer and copy one hard drive and thn paste it in an empty hard drive and i cant do it becuase i only have one hard drive so will it work
2007-05-24 09:27:40 · 10 answers · asked by Joey I 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Yes u can copy content of one hard drive to another, but it is limited only to files (like mp3 ,office files etc) and not the installed programs as they will not run
2007-05-24 09:35:12 · answer #1 · answered by hersh 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First you must install your new hard drive as a slave. Boot your system into windows XP command prompt, and the use the xcopy command. All the syntax and options can be found by putting "xcopy command" in your search engine. Pick the result that takes you to the MS website. If you do this from the MS DOS prompt within windows it may not work because some of the files are in use.
2007-05-24 11:03:09 · answer #2 · answered by Jeff g 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can copy files from one drive to another using copy/paste functions. This will work fine for files, but not for programs. To copy programs too (and expect them to work properly) you'll need to create an image of that drive. It's called duping, mirroring, replicating, ghosting, or imaging a drive.
Here's an example of a program to help with this transfer. It's called Norton Ghost:
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost10
2007-05-24 09:42:20 · answer #3 · answered by Michael S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can but you need at least two hard drives. Set one up as the primary and the other as a secondary drive then copy the contents of one HD to the other HD.
2007-05-24 09:34:10 · answer #4 · answered by RaptureMan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you got only 1 hard drive how could you copy it to another.there's no other!sorry i can't understand what you said but if you want to make another hard drive you can format your hard disk then make another hard drive(you can do it with Windows XP installation)and another way is to get another hard disk and connect it to your master har disk and set the new one as the salve(it should be a map on it to how doing it) hard disk so you can copy your master hard drive to the slave.
2007-05-24 10:10:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi there
will i can't clearly understand what did you want, but if you want to make a copy of your hard drive, then there is a software call "ghost" from symantec, it let you may a copy of your hard drive comtant to another same or lager size hard drive.
2007-05-24 09:37:08 · answer #6 · answered by Colawolf 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes you can--however I wasnt able to because my copy of windows xp wouldnt allow it. They wont let you duplicate windows as its like getting 2 copies for the price of 1.
2007-05-24 09:35:23 · answer #7 · answered by Nemo the geek 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-13 08:57:05 · answer #8 · answered by sabatini 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you can if you have two harddrives, one larger than the other and you use a program like norton ghost or acronis. drivers and all should work just fine. but if you have any doubt, let a pro do the job for you.
2007-05-24 09:39:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
how many partition u have.......1/2/3...or what..????
u said that u have one hard drive.....means one partition !!!
so there is no question on ,copy past file..drive to drive
2007-05-24 09:38:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋