ok, im running XPhome, have an old 20GB hard drive that is running at over 95% full. ordered me a new faster HD with plenty of space. here is my problem:
i would like to be able to do a straight data transfer from the old drive to the new drive. XP included.
is this doable?
and if so, can i then set up a partition for the operating system AFTER the transfer is done? (was thinking of running XP on a FAT32 partition, and NTFS the rest of the HD)
and will transferring the operating system with a diskcopy type of thing mess up the registry at all? i mean we are changing a major device (HD).
basically what i want to end up with is my new 80GB HD with a 8-10 GB FAT32 partition, rest of the drive NTFS'd and all the current stuff on my old HD put in the respective partitions.
i would like to be able to do a straight data transfer from the old drive to the new drive. XP included.
is this doable?
and if so, can i then set up a partition for the operating system AFTER the transfer is done? (was thinking of running XP on a FAT32 partition, and NTFS the rest of the HD)
and will transferring the operating system with a diskcopy type of thing mess up the registry at all? i mean we are changing a major device (HD).
basically what i want to end up with is my new 80GB HD with a 8-10 GB FAT32 partition, rest of the drive NTFS'd and all the current stuff on my old HD put in the respective partitions.