Ghosting the C: drive

Morlan · 6 Apr 2006 at 19:58

I'm currently using a 40GB drive for C: and I want to ghost it to a new 80GB drive using Acronis TrueImage.

Will Windows throw a fit when it discovers that the drive has changed model/size?

Hussman · 6 Apr 2006 at 21:14

No, you will be fine. Windows will detect a new HDD, but it won't affect the process.

It's worked for me.

Morlan · 6 Apr 2006 at 21:22

Many thanks mate. Got it sorted.

Dutch Guy · 7 Apr 2006 at 12:20

Morlan said:
Many thanks mate. Got it sorted.

I will do this as well when I get my new harddisks, can you tell me if it went withouot a hitch?

Did you disconnect the old drive after ghosting and booted with the new drive straight away without problems?

wesley · 7 Apr 2006 at 14:28

what i did :

oldie 80GB sata hard drive C: (winXP) as SATA0

need better hard drive so got myself a nice 74GB Raptor

plug it in SATA1

boot up Acronis TrueImage, clone the drive to new Raptor

shut down

disconnected oldie 80GB sata hard drive

disconnected Raptor drive from SATA1 then plugged in SATA0.

boot up and its done

if you're using IDE drives, just change the jumper setting on the IDE drives

Dutch Guy · 7 Apr 2006 at 14:51

Sounds easy enough, I just hope my ghosting goes as smooth as that as I will be going from IDE to RAID-0 SATA drives.

Rambaud · 7 Apr 2006 at 15:08

I do mine from within Windows - although Acronis still has to use DOS for the actual cloning.

Morlan · 7 Apr 2006 at 18:21

It was very easy wiuth TrueImage.

Plug in the new drive as slave
Run the TrueImage wizard
Reboot
Once it's complete, remove the old C: drive and set your new drive as master
Done!