Hard drive upgrade

[irdepesca572]

Hi.

I just got a new 250GB Western Digital drive and am wanting to transfer the data from the old 80GB to it.

I have Acronis True Image. Do you think this is the best solution? Will it transfer all the programs and data? Will the programs work correctly?

Thanks.



PS: Also should I have one partition just for Windows? Do I install Windows on the new drive first?

 

[reggie_da_man]

Use norton ghost or something like that. If you are ghosting the harddrive you dont have to install an os.

 

[irdepesca572]

Thanks. But should I have a seperate partition for Windows?

 

[reggie_da_man]

Are you putting two versions of windows on?

 

[irdepesca572]

No, just XP. I just heard having a partition for Windows is a good idea.

Thanks for the fast reply.

 

[reggie_da_man]

Well you need a partiton for the drive to be bootable. If I understand what your saying boot with the new harddrive in master and boot with the windws xp cd. Create a basic partiton and format it. When your done formatting it the drive should be good to go. Make it a slave drive and thenghost or transfer whatever your want to do.

 

[irdepesca572]

Yeah, I want to install Windows and transfer everything over on the new drive.

 

[reggie_da_man]

Well if your going to install windows fresh, then you can't copy programs. You can copy data but you have to re-insall the prgrams.

 

[irdepesca572]

Oh ok. I guess I'll try true image/ghost.

 

[reggie_da_man]

Go ahead.