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Copying HDD to HDD

  • 18-08-2008 12:31pm
    #1
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,582 ✭✭✭✭


    Buying a bigger drive for my laptop and just wondering; what is the best way to copy the entire contents of my old drive to the new one OS and all?
    Both the drives are sata and I don't have an adaptor to run the new one as an external for the transfer from the old one.
    With a cheap sata to usb adaptor would the new drive work with the contents just copied over?


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  • #2
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Not directly - because you won't be able to access some files that are in use by the OS when you try to copy them. What you need to do is boot off something else, such as a Ghost boot disk, Windows PE disc, Linux Live CD, etc and then copy the entire contents of the HD to the other one using that. Windows PE would probably be the way to go because it can read and write NTFS and should support external USB devices.


  • #3
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,582 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Cheers Stephen, I knew it wasn't as simple as copying across, couldn't for the life of me remember why. Must go looking for this windows PE as the recipient drive will be connected through usb.


  • #4
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,107 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    Kowloon, I've had a lot of success using BartPE and the Drive Image XML plugin - you can either use it to create an image of the original drive (saving it onto a USB hard drive or similar) which you can then transfer onto the new drive, or you can do a direct transfer from old disk to new assuming your hardware allows for it. There's a pretty useful guide on bootcd.us about how to create your own BartPE disk, and you can get the DriveImage plugin from runtime.org.


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