new hardrive
01 January 2006 | 07:16 PM
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very easy to do
go to the drives website, and do a search. you will find a utility there to do it, which is much easier than ghost or any others i have tried. (for this type of thing)
I just did this using western digitals program, called data lifeguard.
Put the new drive in as a slave, it copies all the files across, switch off, swap the drive to master, boot back up and away you go.
Gareth
go to the drives website, and do a search. you will find a utility there to do it, which is much easier than ghost or any others i have tried. (for this type of thing)
I just did this using western digitals program, called data lifeguard.
Put the new drive in as a slave, it copies all the files across, switch off, swap the drive to master, boot back up and away you go.
Gareth
01 January 2006 | 07:23 PM
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Copying files can be done as Gareth mentions, but I'd install from scratch. A copy will just move over all the registry crap & format errors. Installing from scratch can take a day but it's worth it.
01 January 2006 | 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Nick
Copying files can be done as Gareth mentions, but I'd install from scratch. A copy will just move over all the registry crap & format errors. Installing from scratch can take a day but it's worth it.
02 January 2006 | 11:53 PM
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Originally Posted by jpor
Either will do. I would go for the copy first. Bare in mind that you may have to start service packing and installing all of those windows updates on again from scratch. Can be a bit of a pain if you don't have broadband. SP2 for win XP is around 300MB just to download.
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