[geeks] Windows: move to new hard drive (forgive me)

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Mon Dec 11 00:33:22 CST 2006


Sun, 10 Dec 2006 @ 13:24 -0500, Phil Stracchino said:

> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > Situation:
> > 
> > Windows XP on 40GB hard drive.
> > 
> > Desired situation:
> > 
> > Windows XP on 160GB hard drive.
> > 
> > What's the easiest way to just move the whole thing to the new drive?
> 
> Norton Ghost or Partition Magic can do it easily.  Partition Magic will
> expand the partition for you afterwards, too.  I haven't used True
> Image, so can't say whether it would work.

Hmm... my copy of Partition Magic is version 8 I believe.  Hopefully it
is new enough to do the job.


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