TSGL: Moving to a new HD?

[Russell W. Coover]

Acronis True Image is easy to use and will do the job. I've also used Ghost,
but it is simply not as easy to use as Acronis. And you can keep Acronis
around for backing up your computer. 

Russ Coover

I am trying to find myself. If you see me before I do, please ask me to wait
until I return.

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Ron R
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:17 PM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
Subject: Re: TSGL: Moving to a new HD?

Download a free 30 day trial of BootIt NG 
http://www.bootitng.com/bootitng.html . The site has plenty of help and 
tutorials. You don't need to install it on the HD(s) unless your 
multibooting, just boot from the Bing boot floppy or cd and select 
Maintenance mode. Create, move, resize, copy, and image partitions and more.
I've used it for a couple of years and don't know how I ever got along 
without it. Try it you'll like it. And then buy it for just $34.95. Nope 
,don't own any of their stock and I'm not a TerraByte Unlimited sales rep, 
just a satisfied user.

Regard's,
Ron R



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Brown" <genebrown at comcast.net>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:22 PM
Subject: TSGL: Moving to a new HD?


>I have an aging PC which still serves me well, and I'd like to
> replace the primary HD with a larger capacity one.  A few years ago
> I added a second physical HD (now acting as D: drive) which is
> larger, but I'd like to keep it as secondary and get the added
> capacity on my C: drive.  (Oh, and I'd like to do this as quickly
> and easily as possible. Hah!)
>
> My C: drive is 80GB with 10GB free, and D: is 180GB with 100GB free.
> What I'm thinking about doing is using a disk imaging program (like
> Ghost or Acronis) to put everything from current C: onto free space
> on D: (in a new partition?), replace C: with my capacious new (and
> faster?) HD, boot from a CD, then restore everything back to the new
> HD.
>
> I don't know squat about disk imaging, so I'm wondering if this will
> work.  The things I want to avoid are reinstalling new programs and
> helping them find where the associated data files are, and doing a
> fresh install of WinXP.  I have the original CD for WinXP, but it
> predates SP2 and would take a long time to get up to date. (Yeah, I
> know restoring the image would also restore all the garbage I have
> by now in my registry and all kinds of other goofiness, but I think
> I've kept things pretty clean.)
>
> So, does this make any sense?  Is it possible (and easy) to do it
> this way, or am I barking up the wrong tree entirely?
>
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