Will imaging to a larger C drive work?
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From: RMD on 15 May 2010 01:00 On Fri, 14 May 2010 14:44:01 -0700, =?Utf-8?B?RGF2aWQgVGVpY2g=?= <DavidTeich(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > >My old C drive is 54gb. I already have My Documents on a larger drive but my >program files are close to filling up the C. If I buy a larger drive, have >someone just do a straight image of the existing C into the first 50GB of the >new drive, will XP SP3 boot up ok? I have used Acronis True Image to "auto-magically" fill a new an bigger drive from an image of a smaller drive. I've also done the reverse, and shrunk a too-big C-drive to a more reasonable size. (I don't keep lots of data on my C-Drive.) The only time this sort of thing hasn't worked for me is where there was some computer fault in the motherboard etc, and Acronis TI doesn't work well with a computer which is faulty in any way. (e.g. bad RAM or similar.) Ross
From: LVTravel on 15 May 2010 01:15 "Andrew E." <eckrichco(a)msn.com> wrote in message news:9A9DF5F5-DA77-48C9-A485-D15A9121524B(a)microsoft.com... > 1st,new hds come in a "raw" state,you must format it before anything > else takes place...Youre best bet for "mirroring" or "cloning" drive to > drive > is to use xps "XCOPY", its already installed on XP so no other software is > needed...To do this,set youre new hd as slave to current 54gb,on same IDE > cable (new closest to board),in xp,go to run,type: diskmgmt.msc In msc, > R.click on the new hd,select format,use its default settings.Once > thru,close > out msc,return to run,type: XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r Agree to all in > the > DOS window,once its thru,youre finished.Also,D: being the new hd,if > asigned > a diffrent letter,then use it instead... > > "David Teich" wrote: > >> My old C drive is 54gb. I already have My Documents on a larger drive but >> my >> program files are close to filling up the C. If I buy a larger drive, >> have >> someone just do a straight image of the existing C into the first 50GB of >> the >> new drive, will XP SP3 boot up ok? XCOPY will NOT copy the boot sector and much of the other components of the hard drive as it will not copy any open files and with Windows running there are many open files. The /c says to ignore errors and this is the only reason that the copy process progresses to the end, it allows all errors to copy or doesn't stop when it hits an open file, just doesn't copy it. Yes the drive will copy but it isn't complete and it won't run when put in as the boot drive.
From: Bert Hyman on 15 May 2010 10:46 In news:9A9DF5F5-DA77-48C9-A485-D15A9121524B(a)microsoft.com =?Utf-8?B?QW5kcmV3IEUu?= <eckrichco(a)msn.com> wrote: > 1st,new hds come in a "raw" state,you must format it before anything > else takes place...Youre best bet for "mirroring" or "cloning" drive > to drive is to use xps "XCOPY", its already installed on XP so no > other software is needed.. Sorry, no. If the drive is truly "raw", it has to be formatted and partitioned. After an XCOPY, the retulting drive will still not be bootable. -- Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert(a)iphouse.com
From: Bert Hyman on 15 May 2010 10:50 In news:4bee2959.9569187(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au rmd(a)invalid.invalid (RMD) wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2010 14:44:01 -0700, =?Utf-8?B?RGF2aWQgVGVpY2g=?= ><DavidTeich(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > >> >>My old C drive is 54gb. I already have My Documents on a larger drive >>but my program files are close to filling up the C. If I buy a larger >>drive, have someone just do a straight image of the existing C into >>the first 50GB of the new drive, will XP SP3 boot up ok? > > I have used Acronis True Image to "auto-magically" fill a new an > bigger drive from an image of a smaller drive. I've also done the > reverse, and shrunk a too-big C-drive to a more reasonable size. (I > don't keep lots of data on my C-Drive.) At the time I cloned my laptop drive, the free evaluation version of the Acronis product current at the time was fully functional, and I was able to clone the drive and use all of the tool's features without actually buying anything. I wouldn't be surprised if that was still the case. I've since bought copies of Acronis True Image for all of my home PCs and use it for daily backups. -- Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert(a)iphouse.com
From: Doum on 22 May 2010 16:59 Bert Hyman <bert(a)iphouse.com> �crivait news:Xns9D796423EBB8AVeebleFetzer@ 207.46.248.16: > In news:4bee2959.9569187(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au rmd(a)invalid.invalid > (RMD) wrote: > >> On Fri, 14 May 2010 14:44:01 -0700, =?Utf-8?B?RGF2aWQgVGVpY2g=?= >><DavidTeich(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >> >>> >>>My old C drive is 54gb. I already have My Documents on a larger drive >>>but my program files are close to filling up the C. If I buy a larger >>>drive, have someone just do a straight image of the existing C into >>>the first 50GB of the new drive, will XP SP3 boot up ok? >> >> I have used Acronis True Image to "auto-magically" fill a new an >> bigger drive from an image of a smaller drive. I've also done the >> reverse, and shrunk a too-big C-drive to a more reasonable size. (I >> don't keep lots of data on my C-Drive.) > > At the time I cloned my laptop drive, the free evaluation version of the > Acronis product current at the time was fully functional, and I was able > to clone the drive and use all of the tool's features without actually > buying anything. I wouldn't be surprised if that was still the case. > > I've since bought copies of Acronis True Image for all of my home PCs > and use it for daily backups. > Western Digital and Seagate offers a free version of Acronis True Image with limited features, mainly it won't allow incremental backups and you must have one of their branded hard drive to install it (it can be external). Those versions work very well to clone hard drives and resize partition in the process and you can use them later to create "disk images" on external drive for backup purpose.
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