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Operating system transfer to new hard drive

  • 15-07-2008 12:44pm
    #1
    bus77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,313 ✭✭✭


    I have a new 500gig HD to put in my system, I was wondering does anyone know a good way to 'ghost' my old operating system(and everything else) from my old hard drive into the new one?

    (using Vista btw)


Comments

  • #2
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    There are some commercial solutions that do this very well. They're handy for backup as well as migration. I'd recommend Acronis True Image but Norton Ghost is a very decent offering as well.


  • #3
    cance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭cance


    i too recommend acronis


  • #4
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    will be doing this myself soon, i've been trying to minimize the size of c: by uninstalling and deleting and will probably get it down to 60 gig, would ghost be able to handle that or is it still too big


  • #5
    bus77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,313 ✭✭✭bus77


    Cheers lads, will lets yous know how it went with Acronis.

    (Once i source a SATA cable:rolleyes:)


  • #6
    unnameduser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭unnameduser


    I have had success with this free utility

    http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/


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  • #7
    humaxf1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭humaxf1


    Ghost on a BART PE bootable disc (available via that download method that is not allowed to be mentioned on these forums ;);)) does a good job. There are at least 2 other imaging utilities on it.


  • #8
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    got ghost 12, seems to be very good, am all backed up and prepared for disaster or new ssd drive :)


  • #9
    bus77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,313 ✭✭✭bus77


    Well, Acronis did the job for me...but I did'nt know I had purchased a pepper grinder for a hard drive , so it's not going to be my main HD at all

    In fact I'll probably RMA it because it lets out a 'click' on power-up (after being idle), which is not very reassuring :(
    (looks suspiciously at his 'back-up')


  • #10
    dade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭dade


    used G4L recently to clone a disk, but it created a partition the size of the original disk and not for the full disk. But I think you can then go into Fdisk and resize the partition. only took about 10 minutes to clode a 40 GB disk


  • #11
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    humaxf1 wrote: »
    Ghost on a BART PE bootable disc (available via that download method that is not allowed to be mentioned on these forums ;);)) does a good job. There are at least 2 other imaging utilities on it.

    if you ever use this method DONT be tempted to delete the pagefile and hiberfile to save time ghosting


    bart pe ntfs access is not brilliant, lets just say it was chkdsk city on either of the drives when i tried to boot them


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