copying hard drive to hard drive

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I'm looking for a way to copy an a 10 gig hard drive to an
80 gig hard drive without having to install and load all
the software from one to the other. Is there such a
thing/way? Someone said something about x copy? Not
sure. Please help.....

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Sounds Great! We do have ghost installed on this
machine. Only reason I'm changing hard drives is that the
10 gig is full and I don't want to have to reinstall all
the junk that is on that hard drive. I'll do more looking
into the Ghost program to see how to get it to work for my
needs. Thanks again and any more suggestions is greatly
appreciated. This is what they get when they put a
firefighter in charge of repairing computers, me asking
everyone for help. I know how to put the wet stuff on the
wet stuff, not repair a boot sector or merge data,
etc...lol Thanks again!!!
>-----Original Message-----
>
><troy.kerr@okolonafire.org> wrote in message
>news:09b301c47aec$9af1e0b0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> I'm looking for a way to copy an a 10 gig hard drive to
an
>> 80 gig hard drive without having to install and load all
>> the software from one to the other. Is there such a
>> thing/way? Someone said something about x copy? Not
>> sure. Please help.....
>
>You have at least five options:
>1. Use the cloning software that many disk manufacturers
make
> available on their home site.
>2. Use an imaging product such as Ghost, DriveImage,
TrueImage.
>3. Install both disks as slave disks in some other
Win2000/XP machine,
> then use xcopy.exe with the appropriate switches. You
will then
> have to repair the boot environment.
>4. Boot with a Bart WinXP PE CD (www.bootdisk.com), then
> use xcopy.exe as above.
>5. Install a parallel copy of Win2000, then use xcopy.exe
as above.
>
>
>.
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.setup (More info?)

sometimes far better to do a clean install (assume here that
you can backup all your data) re install current apps and
preferences ands setup -THEN ghost the image then move all
data onto new drive.

continue to backup data any future problems reinstll the
image and copy data back

works for me anyway on a cire set of win2K , office premium
and a couple of other apps that I use all the time

good luck

geoff

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:095d01c47af0$bf6b8190$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Sounds Great! We do have ghost installed on this
> machine. Only reason I'm changing hard drives is that the
> 10 gig is full and I don't want to have to reinstall all
> the junk that is on that hard drive. I'll do more looking
> into the Ghost program to see how to get it to work for my
> needs. Thanks again and any more suggestions is greatly
> appreciated. This is what they get when they put a
> firefighter in charge of repairing computers, me asking
> everyone for help. I know how to put the wet stuff on the
> wet stuff, not repair a boot sector or merge data,
> etc...lol Thanks again!!!
> >-----Original Message-----
> >
> ><troy.kerr@okolonafire.org> wrote in message
> >news:09b301c47aec$9af1e0b0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I'm looking for a way to copy an a 10 gig hard drive to
> an
> >> 80 gig hard drive without having to install and load
all
> >> the software from one to the other. Is there such a
> >> thing/way? Someone said something about x copy? Not
> >> sure. Please help.....
> >
> >You have at least five options:
> >1. Use the cloning software that many disk manufacturers
> make
> > available on their home site.
> >2. Use an imaging product such as Ghost, DriveImage,
> TrueImage.
> >3. Install both disks as slave disks in some other
> Win2000/XP machine,
> > then use xcopy.exe with the appropriate switches. You
> will then
> > have to repair the boot environment.
> >4. Boot with a Bart WinXP PE CD (www.bootdisk.com), then
> > use xcopy.exe as above.
> >5. Install a parallel copy of Win2000, then use xcopy.exe
> as above.
> >
> >
> >.
> >