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Solve : 2 drives to 1, format problem?? |
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Answer» Hi, I'm trying to move from two 20 Gb physical drives to one 80 Gb. What do you mean by physical and virtual?Physical (drive) is one you can hold in your hand, virtual is partitioning a physical drive. ie. drive d: is a physical 20 gigabyte drive with win xp on a 15 gig partition and games on G:, a 5 gig partition. Quote What exactly do you want to do? It is not clear. Do you want to end up with 3 harddrives (20/20/80) 2 harddrives (20/80) or just one (80).Quote how do I go about transferring my two physical drives to one partitioned drive.nuff said. Thanks again, jimAh thanks for clarfying. But I still don't understand why you consider the 15gb partition physical and the 5gb virtual if they are both two partitions on the same harddrive. But that doesn't matter. It should be possible to do what you are asking but I don't know enough about that. If I were you I would follow Soybean in that you install a fresh Windows XP on the new harddrive, then put the other harddrive(s) in too as slaves. You don't need t format them and you should be able to access their data. If you don't want to keep the harddrives you could just copy the data from them onto the new harddrive then remove the old ones. Data can be transfered this way but most programs won't work like that. You might need to reinstall them. If you want to use Win98 as well as XP then tell us because you'll have to do some more stuff for that to work well. Finally, 5gb isn't big enough for games, being as most new games can take up 1gb or more space each By old info, I presume you mean data files, not program files. By data files, I mean word processing files, spreadsheet files, PHOTOS, music, etc. And, you should be able to easily copy them via the procedure I explained in my previous post. Now, if you want to mirror your old Win XP and all your old installed programs over to the new drive, then you'll have have to use a tool like Acronis TrueImage or Norton Ghost. See the discussion at Can I make a backup my current Windows XP? If choose not to mirror your old Win XP and all your old installed programs over to the new drive, then leave your new installation of Win XP installed and install all your other programs under the new Win XP installation.I'm a big fa of "Clean Install" when All else fails this makes your comp run like new...Yeh, and it can waste hours of time. It's a procedure I'd rather avoid if possible. With proper precuations, there really should be no need for a clean install in relatively short time spans, such as from one to a few months. It's been about a year since my last clean install on my main computer and my system is running just fine.Acronis True Image reduces restore time from hours to a few minutes. It depends on what your time is worth.I have some poetry and short stories - among other things - from the late eighties and early nineties that I really don't want to lose. I'm just steeling myself to accomplish the deed. Last time I tried anything like this was removing Linux Mandrake from my computer. It wasn't pretty... Thanks for all the info and help. jimHow many megabytes of data is this? Could it not safely be backed up to a USB pen drive? The best solution is to back up your valuable data regularly anyway. If when that hard drive fails you will definitely be SOL. Quote If when that hard drive fails:-/ Know what you mean. Have about 1.6 Gb just in poetry and short stories. I tend to get wordy SOMETIMES, keyboards bring out the verbal diarrhea in me. I hope that it works There are certain perks To having a drive with no quirks. jim That's a lot! Should fit on 2 cds, possible 1 one if you compress it.With the invention of cd/dvd burners its a good idea to save anything that is constant or unedited, To a cd...CD/DVD burners are about $30. That would be a wise investment for a LOT of reasons. Here's one for under $30 delivered. You can get it in a few days. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152058 |
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