Copying XP direct onto secondary hdd

Gedalia_w · 4 Oct 2006 at 14:36

My windows, software and games installation is on an 80gb ide drive at the moment and space has gotten very tight.

If I bought another hdd, say a 160 or 200gb to become my new primary and installed it in my pc and formated etc as my secondary (would actually be third drive), could I then simply copy&paste everything on my c: drive onto this new drive then take out the 80gb drive and make the new drive the primary drive in the bios and boot up into windows from it as my new c: drive with no problems?

Also, would sataII drives work ok on my original sata motherboard or do I need to have a sataII compatible mb?

Thanks

Gedalia_w · 4 Oct 2006 at 14:51

Hmm, that sounds a bit more troublesome.

Is there no way to tick a box in windows so that when you highlight a folder for copying that it copies all the hidden stuff too?

I have hidden folders visible already if that makes any difference...

Gedalia_w · 5 Oct 2006 at 09:36

Thanks for all the tips guys, much appriciated!

I'll have a look at these Acronis True Image, Ghost of Xclone programs. Sounds like it should be pretty straight forward then.

Gedalia_w · 5 Oct 2006 at 14:16

I had a look at the freeware program xxclone and it seems really simple and easy to use, fast and free.

Now just to get another hard drive. Ive got a 200gb sata drive in there already as my d: drive and a 320gb external hdd so probably a now cheap 200gb as new c: drive should be enough, wait a second, there is no such thing as enough disk space!