Norton Ghost would be able to clone your whole hard drive onto the bigger one. I use occasionally to image my hard drive and i've never had problems with it.
--- Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 23 October 2002 07:24 am, George Baker > wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 11:44 PM > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Primary and secondary IDE > > > > > If it were mine I'd put the two CD drives on > secondary IDE with CD-RW as > > > master, and the hard drives on the primary as > master and slave in > > > whatever order you like. Depending whether you > want to re-install your > > > operating system of course. If not the 3.2 will > have to stay as master on > > > the > > > > primary > > > > > IDE channel since most versions of Windows won't > boot from anywhere else. > > > > I've heard that Laplink will clone your drive. If > I understand this > > correctly I can clone my 3.2 gig HD to my new 30 > gig HD and then make the > > 30 gig master and it should boot into Windows. > Does this also clone Lilo > > and my MDK 7.0 partitions? If so it would be great > but if it at least > > clones the Win partition that would be OK as I > don't mind reinstalling MDK > > as I was going to upgrade to Ver 8.2 anyway. > > Any info would be appreciated. > > > > George Baker > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi George; > > If you're going to reinstall Linux anyway you may be > better served by > installing the new hard drive and partitioning it > with diskdrake (or > whatever) being sure you preserve the first > partition for Windows, then > moving or copying any personal data you want to keep > to a partition in that > drive. Then wipe and reinstall the operating systems > as you like after > switching that drive to master on the primary IDE > channel. I personally don't > trust any software to move data or clone a drive, > especially Windows > software. I've seen too many people bitten that way. > > Having said that; the easiest and most reliable way > I've seen to "clone" a > Windows system to a new drive is run from DOS, not > Windows. Make your > partitions on the new drive, leaving room for > Mandrake to work of course; > then at the prompt in DOS using the "tree command": > > XCOPY C:\ D:\/h/i/c/k/e/r/y/s > > There's a space between XCOPY and C:\; a space > between C:\ and D:\ but NO > spaces anywhere else. (the \/ looks as though it's a > "V" but it is actually > a backslash and a forward slash next to each other.) > This process _must run > in DOS_ not a DOS prompt. You know, from the command > line. > > Then from your Windows bootdisk do fdisk and make > the new drive active. It > should act and appear the way the old one did, just > a lot BIGGER. > > It's been a long time since I touched this kind of > process; and my memory > isn't what I would deem totally reliable. The syntax > may be out of whack. :-) > Or I am. But you should be able to preserve all of > the files in any directory > including the properties thereto (hidden, system, > etc) and then be able to do > a fresh Windows install on the new drive after > appropriate selector switching > (master IDE0) and use them to restore your > configuration as it is now. > > I found this link that may help you with your > 'cloning' questions and I > (vaguely) recalled some of the information from > (almost) three years ago; the > last time I owned a machine running Windows > anything. > > http://www.valink.com/jeep/harddrives.htm > > The "tree command" is on the site! Amazing, I'm not > the only one to do it that > way in the past apparently. > > http://www.valink.com/jeep/Harddrives/H-I-C-K-E-R-Y-S.htm > > Best of luck and I hope some of this stuff helps > you. > -- > Charlie > Edmonton,AB,Canada > Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org > I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in > the mind of man a block > of wax... and that we remember and know what is > imprinted as long as the > image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or > cannot be taken, then we > forget or do not know. > -- Plato, Dialogs, Theateus 191 > > [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", > V4.4, when > referring to image activation and termination.] > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
