how do you transfer everything

[BigD]

ive done everything but transfer hard drives.... well i just got a sata harddrive to replace my ide (which will now be used as a backup)

i was wondering how i can take all my programs and stuff and put them on the new harddrive?

i realy dont want to have to install everything again:???:

lol i feel like such a newb right now, but this is somthing ive never done b4 (when ive voltmodded cut up casses and oc'd PLENTY of times, and i dont know how to transfer hard drives)

[Das Capitolin]

Depending on who manufactured your hard drives, there will probably be free software available for download that handles partition transfers.

[BigD]

ones a maxtor (my new one for 50 bucks, hopefully it dont die) and my old one is a WD

[Victor]

i would suggest reinstall windows and all programs and just transfer the other personal files over. Alternative, you can use norton ghost or any program that allows you to clone your hd, but again reinstallation is highly recommended.

[darkorb]

norton ghost usually works very well, used that in my tech class for school. but be careful, dont set the rong 1 as primary or u will copy nothing over everything :P

[BigD]

i would suggest reinstall windows and all programs and just transfer the other personal files over. Alternative, you can use norton ghost or any program that allows you to clone your hd, but again reinstallation is highly recommended.
yeah thats what i was thinking to :(

norton ghost usually works very well, used that in my tech class for school. but be careful, dont set the rong 1 as primary or u will copy nothing over everything :P

meh i highly dislike norton

but programs do they HAVE to be reinstalled or can i transfer them to?

[Scott]

I use Acronis Software Packages. We have reviewed a few here and the work great. At work we have found them to work alot better than Ghost.

[Victor]

I agree. I think Acronis is much intuitive and versatille than ghost.

[Enigmachine]

Also Ghost has bugs (depending on the version used) when transferring from IDE to SATA; you have to look around for the proper switches. I also recommend Acronis. :D It's much simpler to use too.

[BigD]

sweet ima use acronis then, its like 30 bucks but worth it to save time, i already have a brand new copy of windows on this hd (like 3 weeks ago) and i dont feel like doing it all over again

[Xero (1)ne]

i have a disk called hiren's boot cd v8.1
it has tons of progs on it that do almost anyhting from drive managment, to bios cracking, to drive recovery and even a drive cloner
i got this from TPB, idk where to get it other than that or how much it costs

[werty316]

i have a disk called hiren's boot cd v8.1
it has tons of progs on it that do almost anyhting from drive managment, to bios cracking, to drive recovery and even a drive cloner
i got this from TPB, idk where to get it other than that or how much it costs
I use Hiren's BootCD (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hiren.thanki/bootcd.html) and it works great and has a whole slew of nice apps.

Damn I just downloaded v8.3 the other day and there is a new version out, v8.4.

[Bio-Hazard]

For that sort of thing, I use UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD), but normally I just do a fresh install as I have everything backed up anyway.

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

[Mirrim]

Downloading a copy of UBCD now. This is a great find. Thanks for the info, guys.

[Bio-Hazard]

UBCD does come in real handy, I always take it along with me when I make service calls. It can pretty much find just about any problem you may have with a PC..................;)

[BigD]

UBCD does come in real handy, I always take it along with me when I make service calls. It can pretty much find just about any problem you may have with a PC..................;)
sweet, im missing a part of windows in my lap top and have been to lazy to fix it... this might be able to do it, but my laptop is meesssseeeddd up for some reason:???:

[tomato]

OOOO, nice program sbrehm! I will most definitely dl it for my archives ;) :) It actually might come in very handy at the moment :P