Moving contents of old drive to new Drive
I Need a little refresher course here. Old puter has 40 GB drive - new puter has 40GB drive - what is the easiest way to copy contents of old drive to new?
by soundgod on Jun-14-01 at 18:07:30
swap drives!!
by xyste on Jun-14-01 at 18:12:37
Swapping drives is not an option the new drive is a faster 72 and the old a 54.
by tride on Jun-14-01 at 18:20:19
Xyste - speed doesn't matter - you're talking nanoseconds really. I have done this in the past by slaving the new to the old (since it has OS on it) and then dragging and dropping everything (except 386 swap - you can't.) I just used Norton Ghost and liked it a lot - but it is more time consuming. Usually I just add a computer to the network and then do the same drag and drop. Are you partitioning into smaller drives?
by xyste on Jun-14-01 at 18:33:05
Tride - I meant that I want the new drive in the new puter - whether or not I use both drives in new puter is yet to be decided. I don't have the new yet - next week.
I know you won't approve but I want to keep one partition, at least for now. *o)
When you drag do you just highlight C:\ and drag it to D:\ or do you do it by segments? I have pared it down to 12GB of stuff.
by tride on Jun-14-01 at 21:13:23
xyste - What I do is make a new folder and name it something real obvious. Then I drag and drop all of the stuff into it, then I move it to the other drive and take each folder out one at a time. It's just the easiest and safest way that I've found - especially if some of it is Windows or Program Files stuff.
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