specialist 16 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 I have no more room on my hard drive to expand my payware collections. My question is, will I be able to get all my current downloads installed on a new larger hard drive I plan to buy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted February 21, 2007 Aerosoft Share Posted February 21, 2007 I have no more room on my hard drive to expand my payware collections. My question is, will I be able to get all my current downloads installed on a new larger hard drive I plan to buy? Sure, you can always download and install them again, if there is any problem we'll be around to help you do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn 873 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 If Your current harddisk contains Your WinXP partition then purcase a utility called CasperXP. This utility can copy Your present Harddisk to Your new one including WinXp being fully bootable. I have just replaced my old 160GB hardrive with a new 250GB, copying the entire content including Winxp to the new one, no re-install of anything needed, keeping the old harddisk as a backup. The only issue was the need to re-activate FSX. Wothan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanP 0 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Symantec/Norton's "Ghost" does the same, but older versions had partition size problems (basially, you had to restore to an identically sized partition. Worth looking at anyway? Ian P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn 873 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Actually It´s possible to download a free trial version of Casperxp wich is limted to only copy a partition of a certain size to a new harddrive / partition of the very same size. But if You choose to purcase the full version, it´s possible to copy the original partition to the new hardrive wich may have a different size both larger or smaller. I did this transfer because my old 160 gb harddisk was acting up with a number of disk read errors, requiering pressing alt+ctrl+delete. I found that the SATA cable was the culprit, but also realized that a total reinstall of all my programs (FS9, FSX and a hughe amount of addon scenery and aircraft, combined with a massive amount of tweaked config filse etc.) would be needed the day a real hardisk crash would occur, meaning that I would be occupied for a long time re-establishing my current installment. So I bought a larger hardisk and moved my full installment via Casperxp to this new disk keeping the old disk as a backup. Wothan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snave 466 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 If you are buying a new hard drive then consider that the best option might be to create a separate partition for Windows (of whatever flavour) and ONLY Windows - you can then back up the OS partition in a few minutes, making it far easier to restore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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