duplicating a hard drive

[naturefreak85]

I currently have a desktop computer, it's an IBM Thinkcentre, but I want to upgrade the main hard drive, what program can I use to duplicate my hard drive, when I only have 2 drives avaliable? I know of programs that can do it through a USB cable, but not via the internal IDE connection.

 

[Geoff]

Why not just backup your documents and settings, and then re-install windows on the new drive? I think that would be easiest.

 

[naturefreak85]

Because I don't have a copy of Win XP where I am. I used to have an academic version provided by my school, but I no longer have the CD, which sort of makes it useless to do such.

 

[Geoff]

What hard drive do you have now? And what are you adding? If there similar you should be able to use Norton Ghost.

 

[naturefreak85]

As far as I know, I currently have a IBM 80GB 7200RPM ATA-100 EIDE hard disk drive and I'm looking to add a 200 gig or so SATA 150 drive, I haven't decided which one yet.

 

[4W4K3]

I believe you just want to "ghost" your Windows onto another HDD, right? I know a few programs that can do this.

Norton Ghost - probably not free
PING - http://ping.windowsdream.com/ping.html (FREE)

 

[naturefreak85]

I believe you just want to "ghost" your Windows onto another HDD, right? I know a few programs that can do this.

Norton Ghost - probably not free
PING - http://ping.windowsdream.com/ping.html (FREE)

Thanks man, I'll check that out once I get the new hard drive. Any recommendations for the hard drive?

 

[palmmann]

there is the old xcopy dos command that can do the job.