Hard drive to Hard drive ?........................

[mypitters]

Hello,I would like some info that if there`s away to able to transfer my old hard

drive to my new larger fresh hard

drive,because my other pc crash and lost all my data and I own my retail

windows xp home edition version 2002,I put my

xp cd in my pc for *R* but there was an error popped up that reads that the

cd may need cleaning,so I hope it was dirty

and not any other error it may cause,this in the middle of downloading

procces(AFTER*R*)So I took it out and I

discovered >>>A CRACK CD FROM THE CENTERED HOLE CRACK HALF WAY ACROSS THE

XP

CD,THEN I LOOKED AT IT CLOSELY AND I SAID

WHAT THE F**K HAPPEN TO MY CD THEN IT STARTED TO CRACK ALL THE WAY SOME MORE,MY

COMPUTER WAS NOT HOT NEITHER WAS MY XP CD,IT FELT

JUST FINE,AND HOW AM I WRITING TO YOU ONLINE-I`AM USING MY SECOND PC WITH A

SMALL SIZE HARD DRIVE-WHATS IN IT-WINDOWS XP

PRO (NOT GENUINE)CAME FROM REFURBISHED ,BUT I STILL CAN USE IT BUT TO

SMALL TO ADD ANY GAMES,SO I HAVE A LARGER FRESH

HARD DRIVE(SEAGATE 40 Gbytes)SO HOPE IF IT POSSIBLE TO TRANSFER MY OLD HD TO MY

NEW HD AND HOW. THANKS. mypitters.

 

 

[XMike]

Try checking Google next time before posting a topic.

 

See if this helps.

[Wolf68k]

Most retail versions of HDD comes with a CD that you can boot from.

This CD will allow you to format the new drive. In your case when you tell the software that your new drive will be a boot drive (the C) if it sees that there is already a C drive in place then after formatting the new drive it will automatically start a bit-for-bit copy of the old C to the new drive.

 

Now what might happen is this; when you go to boot with the new drive it's possible you might get a BSoD.

If this happens, don't worry. Put your old drive back inline as the master, and the new drive as the slave. Start up. The old drive should act as the boot. When you get to the desktop go to Start->Run; type: cmd

At the command prompt type: chkdsk X: /f (replace X for the drive letter of the new drive)

Answer Yes to all of the questions

When it's done it should say that it found some problems and fixed them.

Shut down, put the new drive back on as Master and try to boot again.

[mypitters]

Thanks Wolf68k will try that. Later.........