Drive copying

[Smoke24]

What is the best way to tranfer the entire contents of a small hard drive onto a new much larger one? Is it really best to use a program like Powerquest Drive Copy or can it be done fairly easy without it? I may even want to copy all but the Windows 95 OS because I plan to run ME in the end anyway. All help and ideas will be appreciated.

[bailey]

a flopy disk comes with the hd for just that purpose.
it will install the hd and transfer all software and data to the new drive for you.

[Carl Price]

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[Edited by Carl Price on 09-18-2000 at 11:04 AM]

[Carl Price]

Originally posted by Smoke24
What is the best way to tranfer the entire contents of a small hard drive onto a new much larger one? Is it really best to use a program like Powerquest Drive Copy or can it be done fairly easy without it? I may even want to copy all but the Windows 95 OS because I plan to run ME in the end anyway. All help and ideas will be appreciated.

If you don't transfer Windows some of your programs will not work. This is because the installer of these programs put some files in the windows directory (and even some windows subdirectories). Without these files your programs will not work.
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[GeneC]

I have used drive copy and another of powerquests products drive image. Both are great programs, but drive copy has a limit as to how much data it can transfer to what size partition. Drive image on the other hand allows you to not only copy data from one drive to the next but also allows you to expand that small partition onto the larger one. Baily is correct, that some HD manufactures include some other files for this but I still prefer drive image.

[Jenni]

Also, if you have a Zip drive, Iomega's CopyMachine will do it, but you have to have the Zip drive hooked up for it to run.

[Smoke24]

Thanks for all of the answers. The disk that Bailey mentioned, I don't have any probably because I always bought OEM drives that came with nothing extra. I may see if I can pick up a copy of Drive Image, since it will be paid for by someone else, and give it a try. If I had this disk that comes with a new hard drive would it work with any brand drive or only the brand it came with? I do have a retail boxed Maxtor drive on order that should get here any day now.

[jmatt]

Go to the Hard Drive manufacturers site & download the free
utility that most have , to help you get your HD the way you want . ( Includes copying / ghosting )
Hit the pause button during Boot up , you can then read the Make & Model of your HD .

Maxtor's is called MaxBlast ,
Seagate's is DiscWizard ,
Quantum's is DiskManager ,
IBM have a selection ,
Fujitsu's is OnTrack DiskGo ,
Western Digital's is Data lifeguard Tools .

Here are those brand sites ,
http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/software/maxblast/index.html
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz_utilities.html
http://service.quantum.com/softsource/disk_docs/dm2000.htm
http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm
http://www.fcpa.com/cgi-bin/goFrames.cgi/support/su_drivers.html
http://www.wdc.com/service/ftp/drives.html#dlgtools