I just got a new 250gb hdd from one of member here and now i want to duplicated my window and all my data from my old HDD to the new HDD before i can dump the old 1 . I m lazy to reinstall a new window and re tweak everything i done on my old window. Hopefully some guru can guide me

use Acronis Disk Image or Norton Ghost to back up everything from your old hdd and then restore it on your new hdd.

Both of the program which 1 more reliable? I can copy the whole window to new hdd which is currently blank rite?

yup, especially the acronis.

Use Norton Ghost 8.0 ... DOS Version 1.....more stable~!

I often use Norton Ghost 8 or above is good enough and it is stable..
But for your information..if your OS is Vista then you must use Norton Ghost 11 and above cause I have try on ver 8 it doesn't work even after successfully cloned.

I've never faced any f*ckup in Acronis TrueImage either, so not sure why many of you claimed NortonGhost 8 is especially stable.

Anyways, either one will work

Here at my office we are using norton ghost 2003 and its working fine. Try using it:clap:

cant he just copy de whole hdd to new one? noob question

Nop..

been using ghost til today...no probs so far. i haven't tried acronis yet. will give it a try.
it's Acronis True Image right?

My company uses Norton Ghost. It seems like more reliable.

Personally, both of them are as good. Out of habit through, I use Ghost. We the original cloning software, and IMO still the best.

i used norton Ghost 12 to try clone it, get problems with Drive letters, and i heard there's a problem with norton ghost, it messes up ur drive letter, and Acronis wont. So im giving it another try with acronis, and also waiting for some guru to answer my thread.

Btw here is my thread.
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=474373

I personally recommend using acronis..

i got a question ... if i clone the partition from laptop A and restore on laptop B ... is it possible ?

maybe you can try a freeaware called magic transfer. or just ghost it with norton ghost.

i'm prefer acronis

acronis or Norton Ghost 8.... both of them is good.... use it last time....

acronis is not bad. used it before !

My 40gb c:\ partition is currently full to the brim and so I need to transfer it to a new hard disk. The problem is when I do so I'm afraid all my other softwares that were installed at other directories (D,E and F) might not work. I'm also against installing windows again in new hard disk. Is it possible to maintain C:\ drive to other hd without effecting windows and its registries?

What program should I use?

Thanks in advance.

maybe u can just copy and paste to your new hdd

Copy and paste will not work. You'll need some disk cloning software.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_cloning#Software

Is better use ghost or acronis image software...
If you have seagate harddrive, try to download the free hdd software...

Thanks for the advice guys but because of our fabulous steamyx, I can't download any of the software right now.

You can download it at Cybercafe

why cant we just copy and paste?reason?

copy certain file that u need..like mydocuments ang else..

i have tested copy and paste all the files to new hdd partition....the new drive cant not boot at all..
I suspect that some of the windows system can not be copy under normal windows mode...

While the seagate software can let you copy whole thing into a new drive...just go through the user guide...
and you will manage to copy whole drive...and new drive manage to boot into window mode.

Copy and paste will not copy system files such as bootloaders. Anyone know where the registry file is?

use partition magic?

For safety and to avoid frustration, is better to use a disk cloning software like what is mentioned by cheenjeat008

copy n paste is the way, and it shall not the way.
cloning is the only way. Case close

There is a great imaging software called Acronis TrueImage that works great for this. The interface is much more user friendly than ghost

Ditto

I totally agree

Please let me know if u need further help

Cheers

hard disk cloning or imaging software will do the job.As reccomended norton ghost is quite a good software for doing the job.

cloning the hdd.....

Thanks guys. Currently I'm looking either at acranis or Seagate diskwizard.

After I cloned my c:\ can I delete windows from the old c drive?

test ur new hdd 1st, if no problem in starting windows, then u can delete whatever u wan

Buthc. I panicked when I saw the new HDD that I cloned into had almost the same partition as the old one not the one that I set. So I just formatted it and my old hdd cannot reboot. In the end I just install a new OS.
Those rm10 Vista that ms offers to students.

use acronis true image...very2 good

seagate discwizard is damn slow.. took about 2 hours to copy 40gb hard drive..

partition magic is fast and good. recommended

Does norton ghost or acronis true image allow you to move windows XP from a E:\ drive to a D:\ or C:\ drive?

I mean, if my windows is in E drive, all the parameters in windows would point to E drive right?

I suggest Acronis. It is user friendly.

No no..... you don't get what I mean......

I know about Norton Ghost and Acronis in that they can backup the image of a drive and also transfer it to another drive/HDD.

My question is - c:\windows, if transferred using ghost or acronis to d:\windows, will it work?

Update : I found out how to do it already..... and as expected, it is definitely not using Norton Ghost/Acronis....