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Hi John,
I was using Norton Ghost but when I got new laptops I started using Acronis
True Image.
Very happy with it. I use external USB hard drive and I clone drive 1 to
usb drive 2.
I made a couple of mistakes and had to clone back to the laptop. Worked
perfectly.
I use a bootable CD and runs in it's own type of dos environment at startup.
It will automatically resize partitions for you when you go from say 80 gig
drive
to 120 gig drive. I also have made an image file in windows and can mount
it so the image file
looks like a hard drive.
Regards,
Paul
At 08:28 AM 27/03/2007, you wrote:
Hi,
I am looking to increase the size of one of my disk drives "the C drive"
with minimum pain of returning data and and software settings.
The current operating system is XP profession Corporate.
Someone suggested Norton Ghost which could return the whole prior drive
after the new one is initially set up with a new operating system.
However I am concerned about the fact that it is likely to be a different
make of drive and of course a different size.
I am thinking Windows will have all sorts of settings for the new drive
and a return of the operating system on mass can only be done with an
identical drive (size, make, type).
Does anyone have any experience with this and suggestions or am I stuck
with the standard reformating and reinstalling the software then bringing
in the data.
Thanks,
John.
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