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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC )
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To: Surfer who wrote (14309)11/24/2003 9:17:59 AM
From: Louis V. Lambrecht  Read Replies (2) of 14778
 
Surfer, I never used drive images. I am from the other school.
I bless the day I am obliged to change my hard drive as I then perform fresh installs of the programs I really need and get rid of the old registry or extra dll's and vxd's clumsy programs install (and don't remove).
Most actual programs are contained within one CD, re-installing is a cinch.
And performance gets a boost.

How I would go to work:
first backup all my data, make the recovery disks and export the settings.
install the new hard drive as primary master, the sick one as secondary (I don't like tampering with master/slaves, I don't change jumpers on a sick drive)
then install OS and frequently used programs.

As my sick drive still is there, I always can explore it for some data (you always forget something usefull when performing backups).

The other solution indeed is driveimage or any other image maker and simply transfer everything (even your bad data) you theoretically can swap (if your BIOS let you do so).
Worth the test, as nothing is modified on the new drive, nor the old one.

Choice of a new hard drive: up to you, you must chose between reliability and performance. High rpm/high density drives are performant, low density slow rpm are more reliable.
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