Help with new 120Gb Maxtor

Hi Folks,

I'm looking for a bit of advice regards partitioning.

It's my BIRTHDAY today and I was presented with a new Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120GB drive !

My system is working fine on a 20GB Fujitsu with around 70% of it used. I have read up on the excellent fdisk radified site and am reasonably clear on primary partitions and extended partitions with logical dos drives.

I like the idea of having my Win98SE OS on one partition, Program files on another, digital camera pics on another etc. I presume it must be possible to format:c and simply replace the OS after a irreversable corruption, rather than install and load all the programs again.

My question is how do I proceed to transfer all my data on my existing single partition C drive to this new drive taking advantage of partitioning its large capacity ?

Any suggestions appreciated ... thanks in advance.

Norm.

 

Happy belated birthday Norm!24- If you go to the Maxtor site, they should have a drive imaging program available for free. Just go there and enter the model number of your shiny new drive and hit search. I have used the Data Lifeguard program from Western Digital to transfer all data and programs from old drives to new and it has worked beautifully. It also handles all the partitioning chores for you if you are not that comfortable tackling it yourself. Good luck. clydeo22

 

I have done the same with a 40gig to 80gig WD drive. Flawless.

AS LONG as there are NO bad setors or other errors on the OLD HD

BillyBob

 

Thanks all for your helpful replies ... making my way to the Maxtor site now ....

Norm

 

Norton Ghost is also a great program (if there is NO partations and the drive is equal or greater in size...)

 

Someone mentioned Ghost> That's a great backup program that I use Monthly and I learned the hard way that it needs to "see" a drive formated in FDISK. Many of the hard drive manufactures offer a utility to format and copy contents from your old drive to another and under most situations that works fine. I setup a new drive using Maxtor's utilty and Ghost couldn't recognize the XFAT32 formating. I had to scrub it clean and redo the partion and format using MSDOS. That provided standard "FAT32" data and everything has sailed fine since then. Hope this helps.

 

jeffreyclay The problem is that you shouldn't have done anything to the new drive. You should have just ghosted the old one to the new one. Personally, I don't use any of those hard drive setup programs.