Moving everything from one HD to another HD

[rogerg]

G'day all,

A cousin of mine has a PC with Windows XP on a oldish 40 or 80 odd GB HD. He's just bought a new 160GB HD that he'd like to use as his primary HD. Hence, he'd like to move everything from the old HD to the new one.

I did this lots with DOS but never with WINXP! Help please! :help:

I know of the term "ghosting software" and see from the Wikipedia article that it is probably what I'm after, but have never used it. Is this what I want?

Any recommendations greatfully received.

Thanks,
Roger.

:thumbsup:

[gman]

Can he just run 2 hard drives or does he want all applications on the one drive?

[rogerg]

He'd like all applications on the one new drive. I'm ont sure if he intends to remove the other older one or something.

[turbo_pascale]

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-bootit-next-generation.htm

It's free for 30 days. No restrictions.
Put both drives in at the same time, use the tool to clone the old HD over, then you can get rid of the 2nd drive out of the system.

I have not used the current version, but used an older version for ages - it's brilliant, plus if you're in to running different OS at the same time, it's a great partition manager.

I used to use it to build up a "clean" config on a machine, then backup the entire clean install to DVD(s), then if you ever had to, you could use it to make a "fresh" install. Less of an issue in the days of Vista, but I always had a "clean" XP install (including every driver for the motherboard etc) ready to go when things got too unstable for my liking.

If you like it, it's cheap too. I particularly liked it because you could install it off a single floppy drive. It's a really powerful tool.

[programmer]

Is a small outlay out of the question? Maybe try something like this http://www.drive-image.com/

There are many others. The above is only US$45.