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Old 12-01-2009, 11:53 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Re: Computer help needed......

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Originally Posted by kyrocera View Post
Download Hirens Boot CD 9.7 from here http://rapidshare.com/files/17922997...boardpatch.rar

Unpack and write to CD

Boot from CD and use one of the Disk Clone tools.

Clone C to D then boot from D drive instead of C drive.... = Lots of spare Hard Drive space.

Edit: Dont forget to apply the keyboard patch for UK keyboards before burning the ISO file...read the install/readme file
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Originally Posted by vlb View Post
i think what he means is that if you clone your c:\ drive then you can use that clone to image the d:\ drive. then your windows drive would be what is the d:\ drive at the moment.

so your effectivly making a clone of your small capacity drive and sticking it onto the larger capacity drive., then when you have done that you can format the smaller capacity drive and when your pc boots it will only find boot info on your larger capacity drive (because its been cloned of your current windows installation) so will from then on use your current D:\ drive to boot (but it wont be your D:\ drive then as windows will rename it to the C drive.)

hope that makes sense, seems aslot of hassle compared to uninstalling and reinstalling large progs (like office etc) on your large drive.

would be interesting to know what programs you have hogging the space, can you take a screen dump of your program list (sorted by size),
Don't want to sound like I'm totally dumb but once cloned do I call the HD
Dolly.
I don't have too many of the original discs for Office etc, any ideas where I
can perhaps purchase non gratis software
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