Hey all,
Yesterday my 40gb western digital started to give me some major warning signs of impending death. Whilst watching a dvd it crashed and the header started making some nasty clickin sounds, it tried to boot several times revving up and down then finally when it managed, my xp was corrupted. Through a lengthy retrieval procedure with the repair sequence and restore points its back to normal.
As a precaution I have now bought a brand spanking 120gb serial ata drive and its all set up as disk 'I' (I have other hard drives and tings too)
Now currently the western digital drive is the C: with XP installed. Now if i want to make I my C: i don't wanna have to reinstall all the programs on all my other drives that are referenced by XP etc.
So how do I make an exact copy of C: onto I: (which is empty) then swap the drive letters around so I becomes C (still with me?)
an exact replica.
because I am gonna chuck out this WD and I want my new Sata to be the C: without having to reinstall everything. I know there are programs that can do this but I can't seem to find the names of them clearly enuff on google.
Could anyone here help me out?
thanks guys!
Yesterday my 40gb western digital started to give me some major warning signs of impending death. Whilst watching a dvd it crashed and the header started making some nasty clickin sounds, it tried to boot several times revving up and down then finally when it managed, my xp was corrupted. Through a lengthy retrieval procedure with the repair sequence and restore points its back to normal.
As a precaution I have now bought a brand spanking 120gb serial ata drive and its all set up as disk 'I' (I have other hard drives and tings too)
Now currently the western digital drive is the C: with XP installed. Now if i want to make I my C: i don't wanna have to reinstall all the programs on all my other drives that are referenced by XP etc.
So how do I make an exact copy of C: onto I: (which is empty) then swap the drive letters around so I becomes C (still with me?)
an exact replica.
because I am gonna chuck out this WD and I want my new Sata to be the C: without having to reinstall everything. I know there are programs that can do this but I can't seem to find the names of them clearly enuff on google.
Could anyone here help me out?
thanks guys!
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