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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Hardware / September 2004C drive dying!
My C drive is 95% full, XP home is slowing down. I have installed a new drive and would like to move everything to the D drive....is there a tool in XP to do this?? Any other method that will work 100%. Thanks, Paul > My C drive is 95% full, XP home is slowing down. I have > installed a new drive and would like to move everything [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Paul Many disk manufacturers offer a free cloning tool that lets you transfer the contents of the old disk to the new disk. No cloning sw provided. I was looking to move the windows operating system over to the new "D" drive. I have moved "Documents" Folder and contents, all other files but XP is not willing to move. >-----Original Message----- >> My C drive is 95% full, XP home is slowing down. I have [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >. - Did you check the disk manufacturer's web site? - How about the method I alluded to in my other reply? > No cloning sw provided. I was looking to move the windows > operating system over to the new "D" drive. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > > >. Both Maxtor and Western Digital have software that you can download. | No cloning sw provided. I was looking to move the windows | operating system over to the new "D" drive. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] | > | >. What manufacturer is the hard drive? Maxtor uses Diskwizard WDC uses Data Lifeguard Tools r. > Both Maxtor and Western Digital have software that you can > download. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > | > > | >. You can't simply copy the data from one drive to the other? > My C drive is 95% full, XP home is slowing down. I have > installed a new drive and would like to move everything [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Paul No. That won't copy over the necessary stuff to allow the drive to boot when it becomes the primary boot device. >You can't simply copy the data from one drive to the other? > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> >> Paul > No. That won't copy over the necessary stuff to allow the drive to > boot when it becomes the primary boot device. It depends on the method you select. If you run the problem disk as a slave disk in some other WinXP system, then xcopy.exe with the appropriate switches will copy the lot. Running fixmbr and fixboot out of the Command Console would then restore the boot environment. >> No. That won't copy over the necessary stuff to allow the drive to >> boot when it becomes the primary boot device. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >and fixboot out of the Command Console would then restore >the boot environment. That's what I said without all the elaboration. Simply "copying" the files from the current system HD to the new one, then swapping the new HDD and making it the primary boot device, results in a computer that won't boot. No... XP seems to have pre-defined anchor's as to were the OS should reside. >-----Original Message----- >You can't simply copy the data from one drive to the other? [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >. >My C drive is 95% full, XP home is slowing down. I have >installed a new drive and would like to move everything [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >Paul What color is the drive "dying" everything? |
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