Installing new hard drive
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Installing new hard drive
I'm about to install a new hard drive as my primary drive and switching my current one to secondary. Both drives are standard Maxtor hard drives, the only difference is capacity. OS is XP. Essentially, I just want to do a flat copy of everything on the, now, secondary drive to the new primary. Is there anything that I need to know before I do this?
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Re: Installing new hard drive
You need something like Ghost to clone the drives.StimNeuro wrote:I'm about to install a new hard drive as my primary drive and switching my current one to secondary. Both drives are standard Maxtor hard drives, the only difference is capacity. OS is XP. Essentially, I just want to do a flat copy of everything on the, now, secondary drive to the new primary. Is there anything that I need to know before I do this?
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Would it be possible to use dd and resize the partition? Can you use dd for the whole drive or will the partition table be invalid?
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