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Formatting\installing a second hard

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Name: Tim_B
Date: January 15, 2008 at 10:51:27 Pacific
OS: Win Xp v5.1
CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon 2.26G Proc. \
Product: PC Chips board
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I just bought a 320G second hard drive that I am partioning and installing as my primary drive. I Currently have an 80G that has 3 partitions. Is there a way to just basically copy the hard drive of my 80G onto the 320G without having to do a fresh XP install. I plan on also partioning the 320G into 3 partitions using Xp's computer mgmt feature. If copying the 80G onto the 320G is posssible, can I \ should I change the drive letters after I reboot with the new drive, or will windows automatically reorganize that - provided I have the correct drive jumper settings and boot sequence. Thanks in advance

Tim



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Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: January 15, 2008 at 11:05:59 Pacific
Reply:

You should have gotten software with the new drive...it would allow you to clone the current drive.

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Response Number 2
Name: Cody (by codyrichter)
Date: January 15, 2008 at 11:33:56 Pacific
Reply:

software is availible online as well...google cloneing an hd...just copying and pastign the whole drive contents wont work


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Response Number 3
Name: Tim_B
Date: January 15, 2008 at 11:48:43 Pacific
Reply:

Thx Jennifer and Cody

I'm looking into cloning software now

Cheers
TIm


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Response Number 4
Name: cnf
Date: January 16, 2008 at 14:24:54 Pacific
Reply:

Migrate Easy is quite cute and easy cloning utility


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