right hoping to get a 200gig hdd for xmas as my 80gig is getting to full and i wanna keep the rubbish on it :) 30gig of simpsons epi's and i don't have the heart to ditch them hehe.
anyway my c drive is a 40gig and i was thinking of swapping the 40 and 80 over, is there a way i can mirror it without having to re-install it all? running XP with NTFS i think, was a while since i installed it :-P
Lots of ways - but the easiest is to boot from a Norton Ghost CD and do it that way - it'll resize the partition for you too. Done mine a few times (20-30-80-74G)
Norton Ghost or treat yourself to a DVD burner for Christmas.
Fraser
Date 2004-11-29 Title Symantec Ghost v8.0 Corporate Filename ghost_8corp.soss.nfo Newsgroup alt.binaries.cd.image
Go download that (all the parts). UnRAR it. Install it. Run the wizard thing to create a pair of bootable floppy discs.
Restart PC, and boot floppy 1. Insert floppy 2 when it asks.
Select "Local --> Disc --> To Disc" and copy the 40GB to the 80GB. Resize automatically to fit.
Go make a cup of tea.
When it's finished copying, switch off the PC. Remove your 40GB drive, and voila.
Bear in mind this will overwrite the entire contents of the 80GB drive, so make sure you copy everything off it first ! You could use the above procedure to copy the 80GB to the new 200GB beforehand...
There are things like Ghost to copy the partition over, but consider putting XP onto the 200 gig drive and leave the 80 gig as D: Then you can upgrade the 80 to 200 later on more easily. I take it your mobo can handle 200 gig drives?
I would almost always reinstall XP at this point. Gets rid of the bloat/spyware and tidies up your partition a lot.
Thats not enough gigs, I have 120, 160 and 200 :)
cool cheers! :)
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