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Hard drive swap Kevin 11-24-2006
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Posted by Kevin on November 24, 2006, 9:58 am
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Sorry if this has quesion been covered before. I have a Dell C610 with a
factory 20G hard disk. I have invested sereral hours installing and
customizing the OS (Windows XP Pro). I also have a dos partition as the C:
drive and my XP partition is the E: drive. I have purchased a 40G drive that
I would like to ireplace my 20G with, but don't want to start from scratch
re-installing everything. I have enough room on my desktop to store
everything currently installed, but don't know how to go about transferring
everything off the old drive and back on to the new one. Any help would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks,

Kevin



Posted by Charlie Hoffpauir on November 24, 2006, 10:38 am
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>Sorry if this has quesion been covered before. I have a Dell C610 with a
>factory 20G hard disk. I have invested sereral hours installing and
>customizing the OS (Windows XP Pro). I also have a dos partition as the C:
>drive and my XP partition is the E: drive. I have purchased a 40G drive that
>I would like to ireplace my 20G with, but don't want to start from scratch
>re-installing everything. I have enough room on my desktop to store
>everything currently installed, but don't know how to go about transferring
>everything off the old drive and back on to the new one. Any help would be
>greatly appreciated. Thanks,
>
>Kevin
>

Kevin,

I'm sure there are other ways to do this, but if I were doing it, I'd
use Acronis Trueimage, and I'd use a notebook IDE to Std IDE adapter
to install first the original notebook drive in my desktop computer,
clone the drive to a spare hard drive in the desktop, then install the
new notebook drive to the adapter and clone the image back to the new
notebook drive.

Acronis will make an "exact" copy of the original notebook drive to
the new notebook drive.

I believe the Acronis software is available from their web site as a
trial version, fully functional, which gives you enough usage time to
make the transfers.

Copying the information from the notebook to the desktop via LAN or by
other means will cause problems with the Win XP OS. It would work fine
for the DOS partition though.

Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

Posted by Barry Watzman on November 24, 2006, 10:56 am
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What you want to do is possible, but not the way that I believe you were
thinking of doing it.

You need to use one of the disk imaging programs (Acronis True Image or
Norton Ghost) to copy the partitions to the new drive. You may then
want to use [Norton] Partition Magic to adjust the size of the
partitions to take up the larger space.


Kevin wrote:
> Sorry if this has quesion been covered before. I have a Dell C610 with a
> factory 20G hard disk. I have invested sereral hours installing and
> customizing the OS (Windows XP Pro). I also have a dos partition as the C:
> drive and my XP partition is the E: drive. I have purchased a 40G drive that
> I would like to ireplace my 20G with, but don't want to start from scratch
> re-installing everything. I have enough room on my desktop to store
> everything currently installed, but don't know how to go about transferring
> everything off the old drive and back on to the new one. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated. Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
>

Posted by Kevin on November 25, 2006, 6:38 pm
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Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, I have been unable to download
True Image 10 from the Acronis web site. I have tried multiple times, and
the download always stalls after about 8mb of the 104mb file have
transferred. I have successfully downloaded several other large files today
without incident, so I have to assume the problem is on their end. I will
keep trying. Thanks again,

Kevin


> What you want to do is possible, but not the way that I believe you were
> thinking of doing it.
>
> You need to use one of the disk imaging programs (Acronis True Image or
> Norton Ghost) to copy the partitions to the new drive. You may then want
> to use [Norton] Partition Magic to adjust the size of the partitions to
> take up the larger space.
>
>
> Kevin wrote:
>> Sorry if this has quesion been covered before. I have a Dell C610 with a
>> factory 20G hard disk. I have invested sereral hours installing and
>> customizing the OS (Windows XP Pro). I also have a dos partition as the
>> C: drive and my XP partition is the E: drive. I have purchased a 40G
>> drive that I would like to ireplace my 20G with, but don't want to start
>> from scratch re-installing everything. I have enough room on my desktop
>> to store everything currently installed, but don't know how to go about
>> transferring everything off the old drive and back on to the new one. Any
>> help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
>>
>> Kevin



Posted by Barry Watzman on November 25, 2006, 7:28 pm
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The problem is not on their end, I downloaded it last week.


Kevin wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, I have been unable to download
> True Image 10 from the Acronis web site. I have tried multiple times, and
> the download always stalls after about 8mb of the 104mb file have
> transferred. I have successfully downloaded several other large files today
> without incident, so I have to assume the problem is on their end. I will
> keep trying. Thanks again,
>
> Kevin
>
>
>> What you want to do is possible, but not the way that I believe you were
>> thinking of doing it.
>>
>> You need to use one of the disk imaging programs (Acronis True Image or
>> Norton Ghost) to copy the partitions to the new drive. You may then want
>> to use [Norton] Partition Magic to adjust the size of the partitions to
>> take up the larger space.
>>
>>
>> Kevin wrote:
>>> Sorry if this has quesion been covered before. I have a Dell C610 with a
>>> factory 20G hard disk. I have invested sereral hours installing and
>>> customizing the OS (Windows XP Pro). I also have a dos partition as the
>>> C: drive and my XP partition is the E: drive. I have purchased a 40G
>>> drive that I would like to ireplace my 20G with, but don't want to start
>>> from scratch re-installing everything. I have enough room on my desktop
>>> to store everything currently installed, but don't know how to go about
>>> transferring everything off the old drive and back on to the new one. Any
>>> help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
>>>
>>> Kevin
>
>

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