Backup

[Killing2Live]

Hey guys I am in a situation here, I have three hard drives: 1 40gb IDE, 1 80gb IDE and 1 250gb SATA on a sata pci card in my computer. I believe that the 40gb is just too old and is starting to corrupt, unfortuneatly thats where my system is installed and I get messages in event viewer that tells me I have a bad block on that hard drive (multiple messages).

My goal is to do a complete image of that 40 gb hdd and transfer it to my 80 gb and just get rid of the old 40 gb but keep in mind I have other files on my 80gb that I want to keep (Integrate the image with my files?) The thought came to me today as I was making my new windows media player 11 look all pretty with getting the album art and making the albums perfect, that if I need to format and get rid of the 40 gb then all this work is pointless. Another problem is that files on certain drives rely on files on other drives. ie. GBPVR is installed in C: but has the recordings on K:, same with all my music its mixed into all the drives.

What Im wondering is if its possible to move my 40gb to my 80gb and have little to no problems with resetting stuff up? And my major question is how would I go about doing this and what programs do I need. Thanks As always

[psycik]

Hi

I did similar to my parents machine, I moved a 15 Gb drive onto their new 160 Gb drive.

I used Acronis TrueImage - http://www.acronis.com/ to do the task, it's got a disk cloning feature which is designed for just this situation.

And i also use Trueimage for system backups of my System Partition. It is able to image windows, while windows is running.

[Killing2Live]

Hi

I did similar to my parents machine, I moved a 15 Gb drive onto their new 160 Gb drive.

I used Acronis TrueImage - http://www.acronis.com/ to do the task, it's got a disk cloning feature which is designed for just this situation.

And i also use Trueimage for system backups of my System Partition. It is able to image windows, while windows is running.

Awsome, thank you! Did the 160gb have to be formatted or does it matter if it has files already on it?

[psycik]

No it was a brand new drive, so it was overwriting the new drive and creating a new c: partition.

Aah, I just saw that bit in your message.......you *could* dual boot you machine, install a new windows there, copy your old c drive to your 80gb drive, then make the 80 active.

kinda messy this way, you might be better installing fresh.