Best Method for Copying from Drive to Drive?

[johnnymk]

I have a Maxtor 120 GB hard drive. I want to replace it with a 160 GB hard drive. I will partition it to 25 Gb and 135 GB so that I don't have to worry about the 137 GB thingy.
What is the easiest method to totally copy everything, including all files to the new hard drive? It would also be nice, but not necessary to go from Win 98 to 98SE.

How long would this transfer take with a 1.2 Ghz AMD processor?

[ribitch]

ghost it. then use partition magic to play with the partition sizes. I belive you can play with the partitions in ghost too, but i never have tried it.

[johnnymk]

Will a 2 year old version of Ghost work with a 160 GB drive?

[Joshua]

Ghost doesn't care about partition size. Aside from the OS, you may want to use robocopy. It's in the resource kit tools free d/l from MS.


Originally posted by johnnymk
Will a 2 year old version of Ghost work with a 160 GB drive?

[ramazank2]

I always use the maxtor utility.

[johnnymk]

Originally posted by ramazank2
I always use the maxtor utility.

The last time I used Maxtor Utility, lots of drivers got lost, and another time it didn't copy a whole lot of files. Maybe I didn't do something correct each time? :confused:

[ramazank2]

I have never had a problem with the maxtor utility.

[SmokeyDP]

Another vote for ghost. I have a DOS boot disk with ghost on it and it has worked with 80 Gig drives.