transfer?

[sundust1]

My Dad just got a new hard drive. He is on a network and the new disk is formatted Fat32. How do you copy the OS and files to new drive. Is there software for this.. I did a backup to the new drive. Why can't i just boot from new drive and whala! Obviously, this did not work. Could i Zip and then explode to the new drive. I'm lost. He does'nt have a CD-RW+ disk so i can't image it or make a iso. Does anyone know were i can get software to do this. Master to slave. I can backup to another computer But, how do you restore to other computer with only Dos.

 

[franklin97355]

Symantec makes a product called Ghost and others are out there.I'm sure there will be more posts here.

The answer has always been 42

 

[rvnguy]

My Dad just got a new hard drive

If there was no CD with the drive, barebones, go to the drive mfd's site and get their utils. i.e. Seagate=Seatools, WD=Discwizard etc. load on the current HD, new as slave and zero the new drive out. then go through the "install new drive" and select "make new drive a boot drive" or their verbage. When done you will be instructed to rejumper and replace the old on the same connector with the new.

rvnguy
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[sundust1]

In conclusion I ran the DataLifeguard tools from Western digitlal. But, it did not copy all files so i had to use my Xp cd to do a repair install. It worked except some of the programs got lost in translation. Going from a C: drive to E: throws everyting out of wack. Most programs recogizize C: Unless you tell to. it sees everyting as E:
I hope this made sense and might help someone else out. Thanks everyone for the help