Replacing HD

[Huddy]

Hi everyone its me again.
At last I am back to square one,all my data on C:and all programmes working fine.
I have this new HD samsung 7200rpm 80gb I want to install to replace my existing one.
I originally did a disk to disk copy using Ghost 2002,that transfered everything except the OS and it made the new drive D.I could boot up from D as long as C was a slave.I was advised to use image copy but for that I needed about 20+ disks and trying to reduce the number,I ****ed everything up.
So is there any way I can transfer everything from C(inc OS) to my new drive and that becomes Co I need to buy any software??????

 

[Kevin16]

why not have two hard drives instead of replacing your old one?

But if you want, you can connect your new hard drive to your computer as slave and copy everything over.

But I dont see why you wouldn't want two hard drives.....

 

[Samstoned]

go here
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html
download the DiscWizard for Windows
run software it will find your drive(works with other drives)
do a maintance hard drives (if your new drive is formated)
do copy C:\ to the drive you want
do not check erase old drive
after copy is complete remove old drive replace with the new one
and try to boot
It has never failed to work for me
If you don't want to do it this way you need a boot manager
if all tests and you boot from new drive install the old one as slave
on boot be ready to get out of chdsk you don't want this to run