swapping hard drives

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:10 pm

A coworker wants me to put in a new hard drive for him and I was thinking about tossing out his old one cause its slow and old. My question is, how do i copy the entire contents of the old drive onto the new drive without losing anything? Is there a program i need to use or something? I want it to copy everything and be bootable when I unhook the old one. This can be done right? I just ordered for him today so I have a few days. Can anyone help a brotha out?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:13 pm

If you bought a retail drive it'll come with a disk utility that will copy the contents of the old drive to the new one.

Otherwise you can use a program like Norton Ghost.

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Wed Oct 23, 2002 7:38 pm

its an oem WD 20 gig. I have a copy of ghost here. How do you use it?

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Wed Oct 23, 2002 9:11 pm

load ghost on the old drive after yo have formatted the new drive and the new drive is installed on the system as a slave > it runs in dos > start it up and follow the menu

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Oct 23, 2002 11:27 pm

With both drives connected and recognized by BIOS, boot to DOS (use a Win98 boot floppy). Run Ghost. Ghost is a standalone DOS app - you can run it from a floppy or from the drive. The ghost executable is called GhostPE.exe (in the personal edition) or Ghost.exe (in the professional version).

Select copy drive to drive.

blade_146 · Post by **blade_146** » Thu Oct 24, 2002 10:03 am

ok so after its copied i just unhook the old drive, set the new drive to master and I'm done? sounds easy enough. thanks guys