Sorry if this has quesion been covered before. I have a Dell C610 with a
factory 20G hard disk. I have invested sereral hours installing and
customizing the OS (Windows XP Pro). I also have a dos partition as the C:
drive and my XP partition is the E: drive. I have purchased a 40G drive that
I would like to ireplace my 20G with, but don't want to start from scratch
re-installing everything. I have enough room on my desktop to store
everything currently installed, but don't know how to go about transferring
everything off the old drive and back on to the new one. Any help would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks,

Kevin

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:58:28 -0500, "Kevin" <kberlen@ticz.com> wrote:

>Sorry if this has quesion been covered before. I have a Dell C610 with a
>factory 20G hard disk. I have invested sereral hours installing and
>customizing the OS (Windows XP Pro). I also have a dos partition as the C:
>drive and my XP partition is the E: drive. I have purchased a 40G drive that
>I would like to ireplace my 20G with, but don't want to start from scratch
>re-installing everything. I have enough room on my desktop to store
>everything currently installed, but don't know how to go about transferring
>everything off the old drive and back on to the new one. Any help would be
>greatly appreciated. Thanks,
>
>Kevin
>

Kevin,

I'm sure there are other ways to do this, but if I were doing it, I'd
use Acronis Trueimage, and I'd use a notebook IDE to Std IDE adapter
to install first the original notebook drive in my desktop computer,
clone the drive to a spare hard drive in the desktop, then install the
new notebook drive to the adapter and clone the image back to the new
notebook drive.

Acronis will make an "exact" copy of the original notebook drive to
the new notebook drive.

I believe the Acronis software is available from their web site as a
trial version, fully functional, which gives you enough usage time to
make the transfers.

Copying the information from the notebook to the desktop via LAN or by
other means will cause problems with the Win XP OS. It would work fine
for the DOS partition though.

Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

What you want to do is possible, but not the way that I believe you were
thinking of doing it.

You need to use one of the disk imaging programs (Acronis True Image or
Norton Ghost) to copy the partitions to the new drive. You may then
want to use [Norton] Partition Magic to adjust the size of the
partitions to take up the larger space.


Kevin wrote:
> Sorry if this has quesion been covered before. I have a Dell C610 with a
> factory 20G hard disk. I have invested sereral hours installing and
> customizing the OS (Windows XP Pro). I also have a dos partition as the C:
> drive and my XP partition is the E: drive. I have purchased a 40G drive that
> I would like to ireplace my 20G with, but don't want to start from scratch
> re-installing everything. I have enough room on my desktop to store
> everything currently installed, but don't know how to go about transferring
> everything off the old drive and back on to the new one. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated. Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
>

Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, I have been unable to download
True Image 10 from the Acronis web site. I have tried multiple times, and
the download always stalls after about 8mb of the 104mb file have
transferred. I have successfully downloaded several other large files today
without incident, so I have to assume the problem is on their end. I will
keep trying. Thanks again,

Kevin


"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
news:4567161C.5020902@neo.rr.com...
> What you want to do is possible, but not the way that I believe you were
> thinking of doing it.
>
> You need to use one of the disk imaging programs (Acronis True Image or
> Norton Ghost) to copy the partitions to the new drive. You may then want
> to use [Norton] Partition Magic to adjust the size of the partitions to
> take up the larger space.
>
>
> Kevin wrote:
>> Sorry if this has quesion been covered before. I have a Dell C610 with a
>> factory 20G hard disk. I have invested sereral hours installing and
>> customizing the OS (Windows XP Pro). I also have a dos partition as the
>> C: drive and my XP partition is the E: drive. I have purchased a 40G
>> drive that I would like to ireplace my 20G with, but don't want to start
>> from scratch re-installing everything. I have enough room on my desktop
>> to store everything currently installed, but don't know how to go about
>> transferring everything off the old drive and back on to the new one. Any
>> help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
>>
>> Kevin

The problem is not on their end, I downloaded it last week.


Kevin wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, I have been unable to download
> True Image 10 from the Acronis web site. I have tried multiple times, and
> the download always stalls after about 8mb of the 104mb file have
> transferred. I have successfully downloaded several other large files today
> without incident, so I have to assume the problem is on their end. I will
> keep trying. Thanks again,
>
> Kevin
>
>
> "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:4567161C.5020902@neo.rr.com...
>> What you want to do is possible, but not the way that I believe you were
>> thinking of doing it.
>>
>> You need to use one of the disk imaging programs (Acronis True Image or
>> Norton Ghost) to copy the partitions to the new drive. You may then want
>> to use [Norton] Partition Magic to adjust the size of the partitions to
>> take up the larger space.
>>
>>
>> Kevin wrote:
>>> Sorry if this has quesion been covered before. I have a Dell C610 with a
>>> factory 20G hard disk. I have invested sereral hours installing and
>>> customizing the OS (Windows XP Pro). I also have a dos partition as the
>>> C: drive and my XP partition is the E: drive. I have purchased a 40G
>>> drive that I would like to ireplace my 20G with, but don't want to start
>>> from scratch re-installing everything. I have enough room on my desktop
>>> to store everything currently installed, but don't know how to go about
>>> transferring everything off the old drive and back on to the new one. Any
>>> help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
>>>
>>> Kevin
>
>

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 18:38:55 -0500, "Kevin" <kberlenatticzdot.com>
wrote:

>Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, I have been unable to download
>True Image 10 from the Acronis web site. I have tried multiple times, and
>the download always stalls after about 8mb of the 104mb file have
>transferred. I have successfully downloaded several other large files today
>without incident, so I have to assume the problem is on their end. I will
>keep trying. Thanks again,
>
>Kevin

If you want to purchase a copy, Newegg has a downloadable copy of True
Image Home available in download form. See
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...Go.x=8&Go.y=29
(you may have to paste the long URL back together)
Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/

Kevin wrote:
> Sorry if this has quesion been covered before. I have a Dell C610 with a
> factory 20G hard disk. I have invested sereral hours installing and
> customizing the OS (Windows XP Pro). I also have a dos partition as the C:
> drive and my XP partition is the E: drive. I have purchased a 40G drive that
> I would like to ireplace my 20G with, but don't want to start from scratch
> re-installing everything. I have enough room on my desktop to store
> everything currently installed, but don't know how to go about transferring
> everything off the old drive and back on to the new one. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated. Thanks,

I used this product to achieve a similar goal:

"http://www.apricorn.com/product_detail.php?type=reg&id=1023"

It kept all the partitions intact, including XP, FAT32, and all Linux
partitions. Even the boot loader (GRUB) worked fine, though the tech
support told me that boot loaders might have to be reinstalled.

You basically need a way to ghost the drive. Unless you want to buy two
IDE to laptop drive adapter cables, and do the ghosting on another
machine, the best way is to use a product that lets you plug the new
drive into a USB port, transfer the image over USB to the new drive,
then swap the drives. You can use the old drive as an external portable
drive.

"Kevin" <kberlenatticzdot.com> wrote in message
news:ekak6j01en4@enews4.newsguy.com...
> Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, I have been unable to download
> True Image 10 from the Acronis web site. I have tried multiple times, and
> the download always stalls after about 8mb of the 104mb file have
> transferred. I have successfully downloaded several other large files
> today without incident, so I have to assume the problem is on their end. I
> will keep trying. Thanks again,
>

Older versions of TrueImage often turn up on magazine cover disks. They
will all do what you require

I finally got the file downloaded and installed. It worked great. Thanks for
the suggestions,

Kevin

"Kevin" <kberlenatticzdot.com> wrote in message
news:ekak6j01en4@enews4.newsguy.com...
> Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, I have been unable to download
> True Image 10 from the Acronis web site. I have tried multiple times, and
> the download always stalls after about 8mb of the 104mb file have
> transferred. I have successfully downloaded several other large files
> today without incident, so I have to assume the problem is on their end. I
> will keep trying. Thanks again,
>
> Kevin
>
>
> "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:4567161C.5020902@neo.rr.com...
>> What you want to do is possible, but not the way that I believe you were
>> thinking of doing it.
>>
>> You need to use one of the disk imaging programs (Acronis True Image or
>> Norton Ghost) to copy the partitions to the new drive. You may then want
>> to use [Norton] Partition Magic to adjust the size of the partitions to
>> take up the larger space.
>>
>>
>> Kevin wrote:
>>> Sorry if this has quesion been covered before. I have a Dell C610 with a
>>> factory 20G hard disk. I have invested sereral hours installing and
>>> customizing the OS (Windows XP Pro). I also have a dos partition as the
>>> C: drive and my XP partition is the E: drive. I have purchased a 40G
>>> drive that I would like to ireplace my 20G with, but don't want to start
>>> from scratch re-installing everything. I have enough room on my desktop
>>> to store everything currently installed, but don't know how to go about
>>> transferring everything off the old drive and back on to the new one.
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
>>>
>>> Kevin
>
>