mirror hard drive to new one?

[gottabamd]

I don't know if this is a completely dumb question or not, but I think I am having problems with my nforce 4 chipset and my diamondmax 10 hd. i wanna get a new hd but dont wanna lose anything that i have installed on my current hd. is there any way to maybe mirror the current hd to a new one and have windows xp boot to it and still load the os and everything work correctly?

 

[Justen]

You would want to ghost your hardrive. I found this software you can use.http://www.acronis.com/promo/ATI/true-image-005.html?source=google&ad=ghosting&gclid=COz8mY-q3YUCFSJjDgodRkiyOg

 

[jp198780]

you would have 2 download the right softwae 4 the hd. what kind of hd are you trying 2 mirror 2? like ATA, SATA etc.?

 

[gottabamd]

i would rather not have to pay for software to do that.
i would wanna go from sata to sata, maybe sata 2. if it's not possible that's no big deal.
thanks guys

 

[OvenMaster]

Go to the maker of your hard drive and look for the software used to format the drive. Very often there will be a program within that that will enable you to copy the contents of one drive to another That's how I managed to put the contents of a Quantum HD to a Maxtor, and then booted up with the Maxtor. For instance, Maxtor calls theirs "MaxBlast". However, you may have issues with XP at some point, as it will see a new HD in place of the old one.
Tom

 

[m0nk3ys1ms]

you will have to use maxblast (quantrum, maxtor) or seatools (seagate) or something like those.