Migrate from one hard drive to another

I have a hard drive that's failing (bad sector) and would like to completely
copy the contents of the failing drive to a new drive.

How would I do that copy so that the new hard drive replaces the old one
perfectly (without having to reinstall Windows or other apps) once it becomes
the primary?

You can use any of the commercial program like

Norton Ghost, www.symantec.com
Acronis True Image, www.acronis.com/

or even fully functional 30-day shareware Bootit Next Generation,
www.bootitng.com

to create and restore the drive image,

or format and partition the new drive, and use Xxcopy, www.xxcopy.com to
transfer all files from the old to the new drive (this program, unlike
all native Win98 and most of the other programs, keeps the conformity
between the short and long file names while copying).

If the new drive is greater than 137GB -- you may have the problems with
48-bit LBA.

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Mikhail Zhilin
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
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On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:19:04 -0700, "PeteB"
wrote:

I have a hard drive that's failing (bad sector) and would like to completely
copy the contents of the failing drive to a new drive.

How would I do that copy so that the new hard drive replaces the old one
perfectly (without having to reinstall Windows or other apps) once it becomes
the primary?

In addition to the suggestions provided by Mikhail, each of the drive
manufacturer have a utility which either comes with the drive or is
available for download from their web site to allow just that.

--
Jon Hildrum
DTS MVP

www.hildrum.com
"PeteB" wrote in message
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I have a hard drive that's failing (bad sector) and would like to
completely
copy the contents of the failing drive to a new drive.

How would I do that copy so that the new hard drive replaces the old one
perfectly (without having to reinstall Windows or other apps) once it
becomes
the primary?

How would I do that copy so that the new hard drive replaces the old one
perfectly (without having to reinstall Windows or other apps) once it
becomes
the primary?

I've used Maxtor Maxblast to do that perfectly.