New Hard Drive Question

jazzy

I am hoping to install a larger hard drive onto my Dell PC which is now around 11 months old. I did not receive a windows xp home operating system cd with the system, because I believe it's on a partion of the hard drive?

So should Dell have provided me with the xp cd? or is there another way to transfer the xp o/s onto the new hard drive?

Thanks

Mr_Skint_2

Best bet is to phone dell and ask for a disk, nag them and they will send you one

You can do a data transfer but the problem with
that is, is that you can transfer crap aswell

Whitefiver

Hi,

Yes, you can transfer your operating system to the new drive, and if you buy a drive in a retail package, you might get the software included.

I have just done this with a Seagate, and their software worked for me.

Failing that, Norton Gost, or Acronis Migrate Easy should sort you out, providing you can mount both drives in the same PC (I'd be surprised if you couldn't).

CAVEAT:-If you have a "backup partition" with the OS, that may make life a bit more difficult - beyond my knowledge, I'm afraid!

Hope that helps,

Regards,

White.

(PS Migrate Easy was free on a cover disk a month or so back)

andyinlondon

the free drive utilities you can download from maxtor.com will also let you clone your old drive to the new one.

and it will partition and format the new one in seconds unlike fdisk

jazzy

andyinlondon wrote:

the free drive utilities you can download from maxtor.com will also let you clone your old drive to the new one.

and it will partition and format the new one in seconds unlike fdisk

Thanks for the replies!
Do these hard drive manufacturers utilities work with any make hard drive? and not just for their own makes.

Thanks