Harddrive OS help

Andrewshoe · 12-30-2006, 09:16 AM

I am going out to buy a new harddrive (IDE ATA 100) that is 160gbs and I want to transfer my old files from my 60gb harddrive to it. The problem is my secondary drive is being used up by the CD drive (I think thats what it is) so I can't have both in at once. I do have an ipod video though that holds 80gbs for transfering. The problem is though that I dont have my windows xp installation cd so when I put the old shit on the new drive then I dont know how to put xp on it. Is there any way around this?

Andrewshoe · 12-30-2006, 09:54 AM

Found the recovery cd's, I'll just use those. And I'll disconnect the CD drive and attach the harddrive temporairly.

igalan · 01-12-2007, 01:40 PM

I use an older version of Norton Ghost to clone a drive into a newer one (Ghost 2002). You can creat a bootable DOS disk with Ghost, then plug both drives and copy one drive to the other. There is also Image for Windows (Tera Byte), which will do if you run it from a BartPE boot CD.

12-30-2006, 09:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
Andrewshoe Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 2	Harddrive OS help I am going out to buy a new harddrive (IDE ATA 100) that is 160gbs and I want to transfer my old files from my 60gb harddrive to it. The problem is my secondary drive is being used up by the CD drive (I think thats what it is) so I can't have both in at once. I do have an ipod video though that holds 80gbs for transfering. The problem is though that I dont have my windows xp installation cd so when I put the old shit on the new drive then I dont know how to put xp on it. Is there any way around this?

12-30-2006, 09:54 AM	#2 (permalink)
Andrewshoe Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 2	Scratch That Found the recovery cd's, I'll just use those. And I'll disconnect the CD drive and attach the harddrive temporairly.

01-12-2007, 01:40 PM	#3 (permalink)
igalan PCTT Articles Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Barcelona, SPAIN Posts: 1,018	I use an older version of Norton Ghost to clone a drive into a newer one (Ghost 2002). You can creat a bootable DOS disk with Ghost, then plug both drives and copy one drive to the other. There is also Image for Windows (Tera Byte), which will do if you run it from a BartPE boot CD. __________________ AMD64 X2 3800+, Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe, 2 GB RAM, GeForce 6600GT, Windows XP Home SP2

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