New Hard Drive

[ToxicPanda]

Hi,

Hopefully there is a simple solution to this:

Basically I have bought a new hard drive and I want to move everything from my current hard drive over to the new one and use the new one as the boot drive. Obviously it is not just a case of pasting the contents of one drive to the other so I was wondering what I need to do or if there anre any particular tools I need.

Thanks
TP

[OmarSantiago]

Funnily enough PCMover is free for the next day or two: if it works out let me know as I've never tried this program but it seems to be what you're after.

[ToxicPanda]

Unfortunately, PCMover is used to move data between 2 PC's: you need two PC's with PCMover installed on both. What I need is a way of "cloning" one hard drive on to another. Norton Ghost seems the best suggestion so far.

Thanks,
TP

[peterb]

drive2drive (or Caspar XP for win 2k, Win XP systems) enables you to make an exact clone of one drive on another- even if they are of different sizes. I have used it several times - excellent software! www.fssdev.com/products/drive2drive

[ToxicPanda]

I ended up using Acronis True Image 8.0 which did the job perfectly. They have a fully functional 15 day trial vesion you can download.

TP