transfer operating system to a new drive.

[milad_sm]

hi...i am trying to transfer my OS (win2k) and all the software to a new and faster drive...can i just copy everything?? i've heard of norton ghost...any other software i can use?? thanks

[Jon]

Ghost will work if it's formatted FAT32(think the corporate edition allows NTFS imaging). Can also use DriveImage.

I'm sure there a couple others out there if you do a search on Google (http://www.google.com) for drive imaging software.

[Goldwing]

Many of the HDD's come with a utility disk which help you format the new HDD and will clone all the information from the old to the new drive. If your new HDD is a Maxtor the utility is called MaxBlast plus found here ( http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/techsupport/TechnicalProcedures/24023.html ). Last time I bought a new Western Digital drive it had a similar utility. found here ( http://ctweb01.wdc.com/datalifeguard/lifeguardextend.asp?destination=http://www.wdc.com/support/download/dlg/ezmaker.exe )

I hope this helps although I am not positive these specific programs work with W2K.

[Shadow ÒÓ]

can you? yes. SHOULD you? no.......

any major upgrade (even upgrading a CPU) should get a new format. It's just not good practice.

[LinkStatic]

Norton Ghost... Its a reliable way to copy an image of a drive to another... done it countless of times and got no bad experience whatsoever... saves you a lot of hassles....:)

[milad_sm]

Shadow ÒÓ, why is that so?? nothing is changed! it's just the size and speed of the harddrive...
and i might jsut install win XP...if i can get one that is!
thanks ppl for all the info...got a picture now.