Operating system transfer to new hard drive

bus77 · 15-07-2008 1:44pm #1

I have a new 500gig HD to put in my system, I was wondering does anyone know a good way to 'ghost' my old operating system(and everything else) from my old hard drive into the new one?

(using Vista btw)

ethernet · 15-07-2008 2:02pm

There are some commercial solutions that do this very well. They're handy for backup as well as migration. I'd recommend Acronis True Image but Norton Ghost is a very decent offering as well.

cance · 15-07-2008 2:18pm

i too recommend acronis

MooseJam · 15-07-2008 2:47pm

will be doing this myself soon, i've been trying to minimize the size of c: by uninstalling and deleting and will probably get it down to 60 gig, would ghost be able to handle that or is it still too big

bus77 · 15-07-2008 5:27pm

Cheers lads, will lets yous know how it went with Acronis.

(Once i source a SATA cable:rolleyes:)

unnameduser · 16-07-2008 8:37am

I have had success with this free utility

http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/

humaxf1 · 17-07-2008 1:10pm

Ghost on a BART PE bootable disc (available via that download method that is not allowed to be mentioned on these forums

;)) does a good job. There are at least 2 other imaging utilities on it.

MooseJam · 17-07-2008 1:12pm

got ghost 12, seems to be very good, am all backed up and prepared for disaster or new ssd drive

bus77 · 18-07-2008 8:13am

Well, Acronis did the job for me...but I did'nt know I had purchased a pepper grinder for a hard drive , so it's not going to be my main HD at all

In fact I'll probably RMA it because it lets out a 'click' on power-up (after being idle), which is not very reassuring

(looks suspiciously at his 'back-up')

dade · 22-07-2008 10:00am

used G4L recently to clone a disk, but it created a partition the size of the original disk and not for the full disk. But I think you can then go into Fdisk and resize the partition. only took about 10 minutes to clode a 40 GB disk

mukki · 25-07-2008 5:56pm

humaxf1 wrote: »

Ghost on a BART PE bootable disc (available via that download method that is not allowed to be mentioned on these forums ;)) does a good job. There are at least 2 other imaging utilities on it.

if you ever use this method DONT be tempted to delete the pagefile and hiberfile to save time ghosting

bart pe ntfs access is not brilliant, lets just say it was chkdsk city on either of the drives when i tried to boot them

Operating system transfer to new hard drive

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