little inexperienced here (warning possible silly question)

[woolybugger27]

I have an older 100G hdd and I added a 160G sata drive. All I want to do is move everything from the old to the new without having to reinstall everything. I feel like I am drawing a complete blank here. It seems like it should be easy, maybe I am making it harder than it actually is, I don't know. TIA

 

[Rabidpeanut]

I don't think you can. You are going to have to reinstall.

 

[mpjesse]

You can do it. You have to make an image of the hard drive using Norton Ghost or Powerquest's DriveImage or something similar.

-mpjesse

 

[Rabidpeanut]

Why didn't i think of that?

But the fat on the other disk is a differnet size, does ghost sort all of that out?

 

[RichPLS]

There are several drive image utilities to do this, Norton Ghost for one, which is technology from Symantecs purchase of PowerQuest in 2003.

 

[Unolocogringo]

Most harddrives come with a boot disk or boot cd . Boot off of this cd or floppy and copy the drive over using there utility.
Then set the new drive in as your master boot drive in bios.
You can also download and burn their utilities to cd or floppy.

 

[woolybugger27]

well, finances don't allow for the Norton Ghost right now, so looks like I'll be reinstalling things tonite. Thanks guys!

 

[woolybugger27]

Most harddrives come with a boot disk or boot cd . Boot off of this cd or floppy and copy the drive over using there utility.
Then set the new drive in as your master boot drive in bios.
You can also download and burn their utilities to cd or floppy.

oh, I'll try that thanks!!!

 

[RichPLS]

http://www.pcinspector.de/clone-maxx/welcome.htm
CloneMaxx is freeware drive copy utility.

 

[woolybugger27]

Thanks RichPLS!

 

[Rabidpeanut]

Sorry that i managed to make myself look so super ignorant.

 

[crazyhorse038]

You can possibly try acronis disk image software. They have a free trial that I believe will allow the exact thing you what to do. I have used it quite often but cannot remember if i have use the disk copy feature or if it is even available in the trial version.