Hi,
I have a new harddisk and I want to transfert my old HD on my new HD, but I don't know how to do.
When I try to do it with just copy and paste, some files in Windows screw what I try.
What should I do?

Thank you

what ver of windows are ya using? 95 98 ME 2k

l8r

Ghost by Symantec will do this very easily, will take less than ten minutes to clone it.

I've Win98 second edition

http://www.techcomplete.net/drive.htm

http://www.geek.com/sysup/upques136.htm

http://win95-help.brimac.com/w95move.html

http://firingsquad.gamers.com/guides/hdinstall/default.asp

All of the above cover it in much the same way; applies to '9x/ME.

And as advised in Post-2 Ghost will do the job; as will Drive-image; and most HD's manufacturers have utils that will allow modern drives to be copied over (i.e. your present HD to a newer HD)?

Copy and paste should work. The only thing that I've run into that won't copy is the 'swap' file (win386.swp). It prevents you from copying the c:\windows folder. To copy it make a c:\windows folder on the second drive. Then open the windows folder on the first drive, select all and then deselect the win386.swp file. Then copy and paste.

you can forget Daniel's answer. You can't copy the hard drive like that. For one, it won't copy the boot sectors and everything needed to run.

Yes it will work Dave. You do have to run a 'sys' on the second drive to get the boot files. You can the swap the drives boot from a floppy and set the partition on the new drive 'active'. You are then in business.

Uh Daniel, do WHAT? Maybe you are unaware of something called registry entries?

Mike .. If you copy the c:\windows folder over the Registry is included.

There is a small free program called Xclone that can be found by doing a search at Google. I used it a couple of weeks ago and it worked perfectly!!

Good luck
Smitty

Try with Norton Ghost it's so wonderful for a small package I'll send it to you