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Old 17-01-2005, 17:48   #17
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Re: Completely backing up hard drive?

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Originally Posted by bucketbakereturn
CAn i just butt in and ask if i were to take an 'image' (what is that exactly and how can it mimic/act like the original drive) of my hard drive could i then transfer it onto another disk and boot to Windows from the new drive. My ipod tracks are fillin up the original 40G quickly and at todays prices a much bigger disk makes alot of sense. i think i'm askin a v similar question here but u see me no understand.
Shouldn't be a problem as long as the new drive directly replaces the old one on the cable etc.
Eg. Clone C drive, remove (or move) C drive on the IDE cable and replace with newly cloned drive so that windows sees the new C drive in the same position as old one. If you don't change them over like that you may need to change your BIOS settings to boot from the correct drive
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