Help with swapping HDD's

Vengeance · Sep 14, 2003, 01:16 PM

I'm running a 120gb and an 80gb HD

I'm running my 120 as the master and the 80 as the slave,
But I was thinking about switching them around. My 80gb
Is a WD 7200RPM with the 8mb buffer.
And the 120gb is just a 5400rpm with a 2mb buffer

I've been using the 80gb for storage of music, videos, just junk

But if I format my 80gb and set it for the master, is there someway I can just do a complete
transfer of everything on my 120gb? So that I don't have to reinstall everything!
Like windows and my games, hell I like the way I have everything set right now.
Don't want to have to set windows up all over again this soon lol.
But I would also like the little bit of extra performance the WD HDD will give me.

JavaFox · Sep 14, 2003, 01:21 PM

There is absolutely a way to do this. Use either Norton Ghost or PQDI's DriveImage. Both programs can do HDD imaging -- which will do exactly what you want it to do.

Vengeance · Sep 14, 2003, 01:24 PM

thank you

Matth · Sep 14, 2003, 06:39 PM

The utilities from the drive makers sites can generally do this as well

Don't know what WD call theirs, but I just transferred several partitions from a 20Gb (Fujitsu) to an 80 Gb Maxtor using Maxtor's "Max-blast".

Each one had to be transferred separately (why did I make so many!).

This was FAT32 formatted Win98SE, and after transfer, booted and ran as normal - not even any need to SYS it.

Sep 14, 2003, 01:16 PM	#1
Vengeance DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Fort Worth TX Posts: 643 Rep Power: 0	Help with swapping HDD's I'm running a 120gb and an 80gb HD I'm running my 120 as the master and the 80 as the slave, But I was thinking about switching them around. My 80gb Is a WD 7200RPM with the 8mb buffer. And the 120gb is just a 5400rpm with a 2mb buffer I've been using the 80gb for storage of music, videos, just junk But if I format my 80gb and set it for the master, is there someway I can just do a complete transfer of everything on my 120gb? So that I don't have to reinstall everything! Like windows and my games, hell I like the way I have everything set right now. Don't want to have to set windows up all over again this soon lol. But I would also like the little bit of extra performance the WD HDD will give me. __________________ [color=red]Rage3D Super Moderator[/color] [color=red]BFG 6800 GT [/color]

Sep 14, 2003, 01:24 PM	Thread Starter #3
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Sep 14, 2003, 01:21 PM	#2
JavaFox E Pluribus Unum Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,203 Rep Power: 0	There is absolutely a way to do this. Use either Norton Ghost or PQDI's DriveImage. Both programs can do HDD imaging -- which will do exactly what you want it to do.

Sep 14, 2003, 06:39 PM	#4
Matth Flash Banner Hater Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: UK Posts: 3,426 Rep Power: 93 System Specs	The utilities from the drive makers sites can generally do this as well Don't know what WD call theirs, but I just transferred several partitions from a 20Gb (Fujitsu) to an 80 Gb Maxtor using Maxtor's "Max-blast". Each one had to be transferred separately (why did I make so many!). This was FAT32 formatted Win98SE, and after transfer, booted and ran as normal - not even any need to SYS it.