How do you Mirror or copy exactly a hard drive?

[wr213]

I am currently using a 7.8GB hard drive as a C drive and have ran out of space. I bought an 80GB IBM GXP120 7200 RPM that I want to take over as the new "C" Drive with the exact same file structure.

My question is; how do I copy the contents of the old C drive onto the new one I just bought? I want it to have the exact FAT tables, files etc.

I installed Drivecopy but I don't know how it works? Do I put the startup disk made by Drivecopy into the "A" drive and boot the system and follow directions?

Does anyone have step by step instructions as to how to do this. Thanks in advance.

 

[jmatt]

Here's another way .

xxcopy ( freeware ) from ,

http://www.datman.com/xxcopy/betatest/

Start > Programs > MS-DOS Prompt .
Copy the 1st line below & click paste in MS-DOS & click Enter , you
get a copy of everything . No need to close any programs down .
2nd line excludes Windows .
3rd line copies Windows only .

Adjust drive letters to suit .

XXCOPY C:\ D:\ /CLONE
XXCOPY C:\ D:\ /CLONE /Xwindowsxxcopy "C:\windows\" "d:\windows" /CLONE

http://members.tripod.com/~diligent/harddisk.htm

Use the startup disk to boot the computer and when you are at the A:\
prompt type sys c: and press Enter. The required boot information will
be copied to the new disk and you have a working copy of the old hard
disk .