Swapping Hard drive.
 

OK, now is this possbile ...

I have a working version of Windows XP ... a 20gig drive for Windows partition and 60gig for data ...

The 20gig is old and I have a newer faster drive ... is it possible to transfer everything from old C drive to New C drive, without having to reinstall ??

Re: Swapping Hard drive.
 

Yes using software such as Norton Ghost to do a sector copy of one drive onto the other.

Re: Swapping Hard drive.
 

would that not then overwrite his existing data though?

Re: Swapping Hard drive.
 

:tu: Thanks ..... *starts looking for a copy*

Re: Swapping Hard drive.
 

I have used discwizard to do this in the past. It is a free tool from seagate.

You can download it from their site:

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/...s/discwiz.html

Re: Swapping Hard drive.
 

This looks cool, but will it create an identical copy of my existing 20gig to my new 20gig ?

Re: Swapping Hard drive.
 

Yes, it can take a bootable drive, and copy the info over to another drive making this bootable. The tool is meant to make the process of sticking a new (preferably seagate ;) ) drive in your system easier.

Re: Swapping Hard drive.
 

and it will do this while I'm already running Windows .... what about locked files etc ?

Re: Swapping Hard drive.
 

It's worked for me in the past. You stick the new drive in, close all programs, and discwizard then asks you whether you want the new drive as the new bootable. It will then copy the whole drive over, making the new one an identical copy of the old one. It does this from within Windows.