Guest John Ringoes XIII Posted February 3, 2008 Posted February 3, 2008 My C drive (20gb) is full. I have a bigger drive (40G). How do I migrate/move the OS to the new drive? Thank you
Guest DL Posted February 3, 2008 Posted February 3, 2008 Re: Migrate OS By using the utility available, usually, on the hd manufacturers site - and following the instructions Or if possible use the 40gb as a slave drive "John Ringoes XIII" <rlanni@access4less.net> wrote in message news:13qckmbg6qfn8df@corp.supernews.com... > My C drive (20gb) is full. I have a bigger drive (40G). How do I > migrate/move the OS to the new drive? > > Thank you >
Guest Meinolf Weber Posted February 4, 2008 Posted February 4, 2008 Re: Migrate OS Hello John, Create an image of your complete system, change the harddisk and try to restore it to the new harddisk. DO NOT DELETE THE OLD DISK, JUST TAKE IT OUT OF THE MACHINE WITH ALL DATA, SO THAT YOU CAN JUST RECONNECT IF THE IMAGE FAILS TO THE NEW DISK. Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > My C drive (20gb) is full. I have a bigger drive (40G). How do I > migrate/move the OS to the new drive? > > Thank you >
Guest John Ringoes XIII Posted February 4, 2008 Posted February 4, 2008 Re: Migrate OS A slave drive? It's already a slave drive on the machine. Create an image? What's an image? How do I create one? Sorry to be so thick. "John Ringoes XIII" <rlanni@access4less.net> wrote in message news:13qckmbg6qfn8df@corp.supernews.com... > My C drive (20gb) is full. I have a bigger drive (40G). How do I > migrate/move the OS to the new drive? > > Thank you >
Guest Meinolf Weber Posted February 4, 2008 Posted February 4, 2008 Re: Migrate OS Hello John, An image is a snapshot from the complete harddisk as a file which you can restore to another harddisk. You can use Acronis for example, 15 day free trial. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/trueimage/ Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > A slave drive? It's already a slave drive on the machine. > > Create an image? What's an image? How do I create one? > > Sorry to be so thick. > > "John Ringoes XIII" <rlanni@access4less.net> wrote in message > news:13qckmbg6qfn8df@corp.supernews.com... > >> My C drive (20gb) is full. I have a bigger drive (40G). How do I >> migrate/move the OS to the new drive? >> >> Thank you >>
Guest ***** charles Posted February 5, 2008 Posted February 5, 2008 Re: Migrate OS google is your friend. try searching for partition manager, editor, recovery tools, etc.... You really want a program that can take all of C: drive and put it into one file that can be copied to a second drive or a network drive. Older ones can only work with ide and not sata. If you find something and it is only a partition editor that is not what you seek. A program that backs up the whole partition to one file is what you want. I used to use Norton System Works Ghost 2003 until I moved to sata drives. It worked well and I never lost anything with it. You can create a bootable cd with the software also which in my opinion is the only way to go. Great for older machines. look for gparted it is a free partition manager but I have never used it for backing up a partition to a file, it is based on Linux. as far as I know it does not support sata yet (its' only major drawback) development is ongoing and the price is right (free) hopefully they will add the features we really need in the near future. SATA support. 1. make 20G master 2. make 40G slave 3. create 2 partitions on 40Ger, the first one at least 20G, format both. 4. insert "ghost" cd in drive and boot to it. 5. create the image file and save it to the second partition of the 40Ger. 6. shut down machine. 7. take out 20Ger 8. make 40Ger the master 9. boot to "ghost" cd in drive. 10. copy partition image file from the second partition to the first. 11. shut down 12. restart with "new" C: drive partition from 40Ger. done. later..... "Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message news:ff16fb668400a8ca3590ff85d053@msnews.microsoft.com... > Hello John, > > An image is a snapshot from the complete harddisk as a file which you can > restore to another harddisk. You can use Acronis for example, 15 day free > trial. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/trueimage/ > > Best regards > > Meinolf Weber > Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers > no rights. > ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups > ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > > > A slave drive? It's already a slave drive on the machine. > > > > Create an image? What's an image? How do I create one? > > > > Sorry to be so thick. > > > > "John Ringoes XIII" <rlanni@access4less.net> wrote in message > > news:13qckmbg6qfn8df@corp.supernews.com... > > > >> My C drive (20gb) is full. I have a bigger drive (40G). How do I > >> migrate/move the OS to the new drive? > >> > >> Thank you
Guest ***** charles Posted February 5, 2008 Posted February 5, 2008 Re: Migrate OS look for ping "John Ringoes XIII" <rlanni@access4less.net> wrote in message news:13qckmbg6qfn8df@corp.supernews.com... > My C drive (20gb) is full. I have a bigger drive (40G). How do I > migrate/move the OS to the new drive? > > Thank you > >
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