rhapsodyfan Posted April 21, 2005 CID Share Posted April 21, 2005 hi all hey i am going to be buying a new hard drive 80 gig seagate internal, my question is my XP is on a partition drive and i have no XP cd. how do i transfer everything from the old drive to the new hard drive?? thanks for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveMan Posted April 21, 2005 CID Share Posted April 21, 2005 First of all for u to get Windows XP on that new hard drive, you would have to have a XP disc, if u dont have one and do not want to waste money download it of a p2p sharing program like Morpheus or Limewire. And, about the files on that old hard drive, u can either put transfer them to an external hard drive, or if u dont have an external hard drive the hard way would be burn everything onto CD's. I hope that helped, if anyone has anything else to add, please do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted April 23, 2005 CID Share Posted April 23, 2005 or you could put the new hard drive in your computer and use it as a second hard drive temporarily to copy the files, that would be much quicker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveMan Posted April 23, 2005 CID Share Posted April 23, 2005 that actually is a good idea too, but what about Windows XP that he is trying to format on to the hard drive php? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted April 23, 2005 CID Share Posted April 23, 2005 if he has a good hard drive mirroring program, winxp should run on the new drive after its copied Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwt1953 Posted April 23, 2005 CID Share Posted April 23, 2005 if he has a good hard drive mirroring program, winxp should run on the new drive after its copied GO HERE: http://support.wdc.com/download/downloadxml.asp#1 download data lifeguard tools and use drive to drive copy. Here's what it does: Drive-To-Drive Copy The Drive-To-Drive data copy utility will copy files from one drive partition to another or from one folder to another. Drive-To-Drive copy will allow you to select a source and destination partition or folder for copying and will then copy all files from the source partition or folder into the destination partition or folder. Existing files in the destination will be overwritten if there are files on the source with the same name. When copying from partition to partition, if the destination partition is a primary partition, Drive-To-Drive copy will make the partition bootable. This allows you to migrate your operating system to a new drive even if the drive was not partitioned using Data Lifeguard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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