copy harddrive information to new drive

i just finsh building a new pc for a business and they want me to copy the infromation from the old harddrive to the new one because there a program that they have on it and they cant find the disc for it. anyway was wondering if there is a program that i can use to make
a direct copy of the old hard drive to the new one. i need to copy the whole drive the OS, Apps, programs and the rest of the infromations. the OS is win200pro. thanks for any info.

jared

 

This'll do it, it's not free though:
http://www.acronis.com/products/migrateeasy

They also make a good imager:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2236.html

 

baradeithel, Check out

Karen's Replicator 2.2.3 http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3917.html

Usual caveats apply on using any backup program. Do a backup first !!

It will do a complete backup and incremental backups, for free. Close down all other open applications before using it for best results. I started using it doing a full backup from C:\ to D:\ then daily incremental backups. It wont backup your SWP file or index.dat as they are in use by Windows. But you dont need a copy of index.dat as Windows recreates it every bootup if it can't find it, and you can create a new SWAP file as well. Suggest that you get rid of all temp files, etc before copying. A DEFRAG is also a good idea before you start.

I use Norton's Disk Doctor but this is a subset of Norton Utilities and not free.

First time you run it will take a long time, naturally. It doesn't pack the files but copies them as is.

Make sure you read the log file of files read, files copied, files ignored (some in use and can't be copied) and save log results

Hope this helps. Bazza

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hey bara Couple of hardware solutions. Check the papers or search "shopping" at Major geeks and find out if any of the USB keychain portable HDs are on sale. Some of the new ones have quite a lot of meg capacity for (on sale) pretty reasonable prices. That way you just transfer the stuff you want to keep onto the USB device, plug it into the USB port on the new pooter and drag and drop the application you choose to the new HD. Or, if you're running XP on the new one, get a couple of cables, network up the old computer to the new one and transfer everything that way. (might not work with Win2000 though.) There's a network wizard in XP that will guide you step by step.

 

Also, this thread may shed some light:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/vb/showthread.php?t=27238