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Copying files to a new hard drive
Name: Bugmenot2 Date: June 22, 2005 at 20:38:00 Pacific OS: win XP CPU/Ram: P4 / 256
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I have a 100gb hard drive (it's for storage, I boot windows from another drive) and it's nearly full. I've bought a 320gb hdd to replace it. How to I go about copying all the files from the old storage drive to the new one? I don't think I can do it through windows, because I need both the storage drives plugged in at once, and windows isn't installed on either of them. They're ntfs by the way.
Name: mikecarl Date: June 22, 2005 at 20:45:10 Pacific
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Heck, I'm not an expert, but I'm waiting for my question to be answered. Anyways, I have acronis 8 on my computer that is supposed to clone disks. That might work, huh. Anyways, I am using it right now to restore an image.
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Response Number 2
Name: dalex Date: June 22, 2005 at 20:46:30 Pacific
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Your probably gona need to find someone with ntfs setup with windows, hook up hard drives to it and do it through his windows. Someone else might know a better way but
DaleX
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Response Number 3
Name: Rich Mentzel Date: June 22, 2005 at 20:58:59 Pacific
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You didn't say how big the main drive is...would you be able to compress the files you want to transfer onto drive 1, then install the big drive and transfer over to the new one?
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Response Number 4
Name: hiho Date: June 22, 2005 at 22:45:10 Pacific
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True Image
http://www.acronis.com
Does your PC BIOS recognise the drive??
http://www.48bitlba.com/
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Response Number 5
Name: FragrantToes Date: June 22, 2005 at 23:02:47 Pacific
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Why not temporarily disconnect an optical drive so that you can have the three hard drives connected at once. Then just copy while in windows.
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Response Number 6
Name: Martyn999 Date: June 23, 2005 at 00:24:06 Pacific
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If that's not an option, purchase a USB to IDE convertor - this allows you to connect an IDE drive (whether it be hard disk or optical or anything else you can get) into a USB port. I use one of these for my backup. You could connect the new disk to this, then copy files onto it from the internal hard disk. Then simply move the new disk into the place the current one is.
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Response Number 7
Name: Rich Mentzel Date: June 23, 2005 at 05:41:18 Pacific
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Outstanding and simple Fragrant Toes!!! That's the way to go...
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