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ramosfet

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17. March 2008 @ 14:24

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I've tried to use norton ghost 12, drivexml and i can't figure out how to do a simple image of a 60gb hard drive to put onto 120gb hard drive. could somebody please help. thanks

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blivetNC

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18. March 2008 @ 22:16

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Who makes the hard drive (120 Gig). The manufacturer usually provides a free utility that will copy your drive onto the new drive. I've used both Western digital's and Maxtor's disk image utility without any problems.

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DigiBear

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19. March 2008 @ 15:02

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Windows itself has a migration tool to transfer your current operating system to another drive. Acessories, System Tools, File and Settings Transfer Wizard.

I personally use Acronis True Image for all my backups and restorations.

Read here -> http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

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byngo

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27. March 2008 @ 11:42

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There can be lots of problems encountered when imaging a drive and some programs will not let you write the image to an NTFS formatted drive (it must be a Fat32 Partition). I used Nero 8 Imagedrive and backed-up the image of my C drive to two Dual-layer DVD's. However, bear this in mind....
If you are trying to transfer your 60 gig partition to a new 120Gig HDD to start a new or upgraded build, you would be better off starting from fresh with the new HDD. Partition it with say a 20 to 35 GIG Partition for your OS (C drive) and use the rest for DATA and programs. Then your OS partition is much quicker to defrag & maintain and smaller & quicker to image for safe keeping.
You can always use the "files and settings transfer wizard" if you like to help the migration.

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