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  1. Dec 17th, 2005, 06:08 PM #1
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    Change hard drive and mirror it?

    I have a compaq with windows XP installed. I know the hD is going to give out soon. If I buy a new hard drive, is there any way I can copy everything including windows, etc. to the other hard drive and then make it be the bootable one? I know there is software like Ghost or something but thats for mirroring from one machine to another.

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  2. Dec 18th, 2005, 08:20 PM #2
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    Re: Change hard drive and mirror it?

    Ghost will work for that, and is probably your best bet.
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    Re: Change hard drive and mirror it?

    If you buy a 'retail' packaged drive (costs a little more, but comes in a nice box!) it should come with software to do that - but will probably only copy to drives by that manufacturer.
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    Re: Change hard drive and mirror it?

    hmmm well u can use file and settings transfer wizard programs back it up then reload windows copy the backup file then execute it, you'll be back in no time.. good luck
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    Re: Change hard drive and mirror it?

    I used one yesterday that the client bought at CompUSA. It created a self-extracing .exe, which installed on the new machine's drive (transferred over the network). Except for a few fonts from PhotoShop, everything worked.
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