master and slave

[BLU CIVIC]

ok i just got a 120gb hard drive to help out my current 4.03gb hard drive....will i have a smaller tower and had to take out one of my cd drives to make it fit....i want to copy everything from my master hard drive over to the slave so i can take the 4.03gb drive out...is there a way that i can do this?

[uranium235powered]

dump everything into an ipod.

[BLU CIVIC]

well i found out that the new hard drive came with the software for me to do it...and i'm copyin it right now

new question...the box says 120GB...but when i installed it, it says 111GB of available space...how did i loose 9GB?

[my3rdskyline]

http://www.pcmech.com/show/troubleshoot/68/

[Oz]

What he said.

Best software to do a direct copy is Ghost. PM me if you want a copy.

[BLU CIVIC]

Originally Posted by my3rdskyline

http://www.pcmech.com/show/troubleshoot/68/

thanks alot

Oz...running on the now copied hard drive...thanks anyway

i must say...my 1st big fix on my computer...and it was successful

[Oz]

Good onya mate. Hope you have that first time satisfaction still.

This is the program I was talking about - good stuff.

http://www.download.com/Symantec-Gho...ml?tag=lst-0-1

[Oz]

This link explains what it can do a bit better.

http://sea.symantec.com/content/product.cfm?productid=9

[Plastic_Fork]

Originally Posted by BLU CIVIC

new question...the box says 120GB...but when i installed it, it says 111GB of available space...how did i loose 9GB?

It's "approximately" 120gb - it's not an exact figure. It's probably closer to 117gb (remember, it's a multiple of 1024 so it's not really an even 120gb). Also, your operating system needs some overhead for the file system and boot table. You can expect the PC to eat up approximately 10% of any unused drive for overhead. 111gb should be about right.