Cloning my HDD

[Caliente]

I want to upgrade my 120GB PATA drive with a 160-200GB SATA drive. I was wondering how I might go about cloning the old HDD to the new one. Also when I do this, will all my programs still work properly on the new drive?

[glc]

The free drive setup software from most drive manufacturers can clone drives, as can programs such as Norton Ghost.

[Caliente]

Well I tried using the Data Lifeguard Tools v11.1 that came with my Western Digital HDD, but I couldn't get the partitions to clone properly from the old drive to the partitions on the new drive. There were a couple files on each that could not clone over. Any ideas on how I can get it to work right?

[Alienware_Dude]

Did you boot up with the floppy, or clone it from within Windows?

[Caliente]

Within Win XP

[Cricket]

You can't clone it from within Windows because the system file are in use...that's why all the files didn't move over. You gotta do it from a floppy and DOS.

:) Cricket

[Caliente]

Thank you, I will give it a try.