Placing New H/Drive

lancer22 · Mar 24, 2003

I've decided it,s time for a new H/Drive.
Have a 20 gig 5400rpm & changing to a IBM 120gxp 40gig 7200rpm.
Is there anyway to swap all of whats on the old H/drive to the new one?

nasty mailman · Mar 24, 2003

Norton Ghost can do the trick.

Duracell · Mar 24, 2003

lancer22

most HDD fabricators will give you a tool for doing this for free; check IBM's homepage;
of course Ghost will do this too, but it's not for free;

Greetings from
Duracell

LTR12101B · Mar 24, 2003

With two drives fitted, you can normally run "licenced with drive only" versions of software for EITHER - so if you don't like the software available for the new drive, try looking for the old.

http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#Installation
Not sure if Disk Manager handles simple transfer tasks, as well as the tricky stuff - it says it replaces Drive Guide

This is where IBM's drives are now!

zver · Mar 24, 2003

Just a hint:::I had a problem with newest ghost2003--maybe you should try 2002 or ghost corporate7.5--which people said its the best ghost...Or try acronis...

slippery · Mar 30, 2003

I prefer Acronis over Norton Ghost - too may problems with ghost and xp

Duracell · Mar 30, 2003

it seems lancer22 wasn't able to manage it; otherwise he would say "thank you mates";

but maybe this thread will be usefull for future cases;

Greetings from
Duracell

lancer22 · Mar 30, 2003

Cheers
I'd like to take this opitunity to thank all the blokes who answered my qustion.

lancer22 · Mar 30, 2003

I have a new one for u all,
What is your individual thoughts on wich h/drive would be your choice and why?