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November 25th, 2004 08:00

New Hard Drives

I have a dimension 8100 with dual hard drives 40gb and 20 gb. Both Hard drives nearly full. Can anybody tell me how I can replace both hard drives with 120 gb and copy both XP off the  D drive 20gb drive and ME from the C drive,40gb. I forgot to say it is a dual boot system.I am hoping I dont have to start all over again.
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    Posted November 25th, 2004 09:00

    Most new drives come with cloning software that will let you make a mirror image of an old drive. If you're patient (the utilities are slow) they'll work fine. If you need to do the job faster, you can purchase Symantec Ghost or Acronis TrueImage, which will do the job much more quickly.
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    Posted November 25th, 2004 20:00

    Thanks for your message.I have got both ghost and drive image but
    this may appear thick but how do you attach the new drives to enable cloning?
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    Posted November 25th, 2004 22:00


    @macshac wrote:
    Thanks for your message.I have got both ghost and drive image but
    this may appear thick but how do you attach the new drives to enable cloning?


    Remove D.  Put a piece of masking tape on it labeled "Old D".

    Put a new 120 there, and clone C to it.  Don't reboot.  Remove the 120 and label it "New C".  Remove the old C and label it "Old C".

    Now, put old D in the boot position, the other new 120 in secondary, and clone old D to the 120.  Leave the 120 there, remove the old D and put in the New C.

    Then remove D fromt he boot position and put the new C

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