monte70car Posted December 23, 2008 Posted December 23, 2008 this is a different type of hard drive question. how can one clone an existing hard drive to a new drive and keep the information on the existing? the computer in question is a compaq desktop which has two hard drives. the org. hard drive in the compaq has windows xp on it and the other drive is blank. Quote
Ian Posted December 23, 2008 Posted December 23, 2008 Look for Symantec Ghost. We use the enterprise edition, but I think they sell a consumer version. It works great. It is $69 http://www.symantec.com/norton/ghost PS they will let you download a trial version. Not sure what the limitations are, but worth a shot. PSS one cool feature is that you can make a exact copy of your hard drive to a DVD, CD, or external USB Hard Drive to restore the computer back to the way it was. I have 2 computers for the kids that I setup the way I want them, I.E. all the software I want them to have on it, and then when they blow them up, it takes me about 20 min to have them a clean system Quote
monte70car Posted December 23, 2008 Author Posted December 23, 2008 i have the compaq which is a spare computer incase i have one in the shop. this computer is not being used at all right now. so i was wondering if i could copy or clone the os on to the hard drive that is in it and transfer it to another hard drive to run in another computer. i currently have a desktop running linux os which has two hard drives in it one is a 1tb and the other is a 80gb. i would like to have both windows and linux on this computer at the same time. Quote
Ian Posted December 23, 2008 Posted December 23, 2008 You could do it with Ghost, when you power it up in the second computer, it will find the new hardware and reboot a couple times, but it should work ok... Quote
monte70car Posted December 23, 2008 Author Posted December 23, 2008 well it looks like i just lost my linux os . i just took a chance on my windows xp software and its downloading the os. i hope its going on the blank drive and not the linux drive. only time will tell what its doing. Quote
Ian Posted December 23, 2008 Posted December 23, 2008 Always disconnect the drive that you don't want messed up when trying new things Quote
monte70car Posted December 23, 2008 Author Posted December 23, 2008 it showed both drives the but i dont remember which drive the linux os was on. if this works i will reload the linux back up. so far i got 7 minutes left on the xp install. Quote
monte70car Posted December 23, 2008 Author Posted December 23, 2008 now i have to download the drives for the motherboard since it did not come with the software. Quote
monte70car Posted December 24, 2008 Author Posted December 24, 2008 i did lose my linux os drive . but i did get xp loaded up and all of the software for the motherboard. now the question is do i upgarde from xp to the vista program i have on my digital locker account? right now this thing is running really fast i can bearly take a slip of my water before its waiting on me to tell it to do something. Quote
monte70car Posted December 24, 2008 Author Posted December 24, 2008 the other drive wasnt formated when xp was installed so it went on the linux drive which is a 1tb hard drive. looks like i have alot of updates to do then its download the aint-virus software. should i load firefox on this allan or keep ie? Quote
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