Hello I just got a new hard drive and would like to know what is the easiest way to clone my old drive to the new so I can put my old drive in a different computer? Thanks

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Ya, you could do that, but you also can just make your old hard drive a slave drive so you can pull all your old information that way. Just a little easier and time saving in my book.

Download "DiscWizard" from the Seagate web site. Works with any make hard drive.

After you have it cloned and swapped to master, you might have to set it active. It will not boot if this is not done. Boot from a floppy, run fdisk and set the partition 'active'.

I have cloned many drives, usually using Xclone (available on several download sites). It is the best way to go since it transfers the whole working copy, including the Registry. If you use a permanent swap file you will have to set this up on the cloned drive as copy routines cannot move swap files.

Norton Ghost