Excellent help - thank you all. I am going out to get the PC tonight and will give it a try. I ended up purchasing a new PATA 500Gb and Acronis True Image Home Edition to keep it as simple as possible. Will try to clone old C: to new 500Gb (will partition in two), and then after that is done...
[Once you are done, you'll need to put the new sata drive on the SATA port that holds the old drive, in fact replacing the old drive with the new.]
Therein lies the problem. I intended to put the new SATA in with a PCI SATA controller as the old "C" drive is a PATA with Mobo controller. How to...
One more thing - How will the cloning software let the new SATA drive be labeled "C:" if there already is the old 40Gb "C:" before I disconnect it? Doesn't the registry have to know that "C:" is the system disk?
It would appear that if I make an image on the new SATA (which will have a drive...
Thanks - good information. Fry's electronics 'tech advisor' also suggested Acronis True Image Home Edition. I downloaded the manual and it looks like it will do everything I need.
I am going with a new SATA HD and the Mobo only supports RAID SATA. So I intend to purchase an PCI SATA card and...
Does anyone know an efficient way to copy the entire contents of a 'too small' system HD over to a much larger new system HD?
I tried this once years ago when I ran out of space on a 20Gb system drive, and used Norton Ghost. Athough I was able to get Win XP up and running it was not a...
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