Hard Drive Help

[vile_asid]

I am looking at upgrading my harddrives to the 10,000 rmp harddrives. My issue is I am wondering about how to transfer my programs , data, and drivers over to the new harddrives. I can do a clean install of XP, but I do not have all the installs for my programs, and also can not replicate alot of my data. How should I do this? The old harddrives will be going to my parents.

[gregnash]

Do you have a program that can do an image of your HDD? If so that might be your best bet. Other than that I would do a full install on the blank new drive then hook both up and do a transfer across wire.

[vile_asid]

will that let me keep all my programs working?

[ỒĊBłůē]

Depending on what brand of HDD you get, IIRC most manufacturers have utilities that you can download that'll copy your old drive over to the new one - bootable programs that walk you through the options.

Once you're happy that it's all running as it should, you can prolly use another of their tools to zero-fill your old drive.

In my experience I've used Seagate's Seatools, Maxtor's Maxblast and Western Digital's Data Lifeguard progs.

[lbreevesii]

norton ghost(part of seatools but also a standalone) works well. Have yet to try out maxtors and wd's. i've got wd's sititn around here, need to play with it sometime.