Cloning one drive to another

mattyj1085

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Is it possible to clone the exact contents from one drive to another? I want to keep my system how it is but boot off my SATA drive instead of IDE

I know that simply dragging and dropping all the contents of my C: to the new drive (H:) wont work
 
Yes its definatly possible, grab yourself a copy of Acronis True Image or if the drives are Seagate you can download Seagates Discwizard whisch is a cut down version of Acronis but still allows you to clone drives.
 
Thanks, this is now done. I have a cloned image of my C: on H:

Half the space on H: is unallocated, how do you merge it together?

After I have done this how do I boot from H: so it changed to C (and C changed to H, or something else)
 
doesnt matter i did it using this site

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325590&Product=win2000

1. At a command prompt, type diskpart.exe.
2. Type list volume to display the existing volumes on the computer.
3. Type Select volume volume number where volume number is number of the volume that you want to extend.
4. Type extend [size=n] [disk=n] [noerr]. The following describes the parameters:
size=n
The space, in megabytes (MB), to add to the current partition. If you do not specify a size, the disk is extended to use all the next contiguous unallocated space.

disk=n
The dynamic disk on which to extend the volume. Space equal to size=n is allocated on the disk. If no disk is specified, the volume is extended on the current disk.

noerr
For scripting only. When an error is thrown, this parameter specifies that Diskpart continue to process commands as if the error did not occur. Without the noerr parameter, an error causes Diskpart to exit with an error code.
5. Type exit to exit Diskpart.exe.

When the extend command is complete, you should receive a message that states that Diskpart successfully extended the volume. The new space should be added to the existing drive while maintaining the data on the volume.


Now to work out how to boot from it as C:
 
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