Being that I am moving house. I have decided that instead of lumbering my desktop Compaq pc to Scotland with me I might buy one of the new Mac books that can apparantly run windows xp and OSX. I would hopefully sell the PC and a G4 Powerbook I have.


Now here comes the burning question! I want to make a back up of all of the files on my pc which is somewhere in the region of 15gigs "Yes 15gigs".

How the heck do I get that lot on to my possible Mac Book???? Every time I try and make a back up to another hard drive on my PC designated "D" I am told that it's tooooo big.

Any help really appreciated please as I am a complete novice at this.

Charles
Harold Wood Essex UK

I would suggest an external hard drive and or imaging software .

Thank you. Excuse the "Novishness"! but if I use either method would I only get he files or both the files and the Prog software. I have the majority of the Progs on disk but I have so many progs and i'ts a bore to have to put it all back. Is there a maximum amount of gigs that either method can handle? (Maybe I shouldn't move) !
Regards.

Originally Posted by jephree

I would suggest an external hard drive and or imaging software .

The only way to carry over your programs would be to Clone the drive. (Make an exact copy).

Even so you may have issues with drivers although you can try this method:

as Originally Posted by brain_damage:
http://www.d-a-l.com/help/showthread.php?t=31459

This would particularly apply if you removed and kept your current hard drive to move. The buyer of your old system would then need to add the hard drive and Operating System. This is just another option. Either way if you plan on transferring your Operating System then the old machine will be without one. Your XP Product Key is only valid on one computer.


The only limitation is the size of the new drive. For example Maxtor's MaxBlast has a cloning program that enables you to install a new Maxtor drive and clone your old one to it.

One tip if you do this is to set the receiving drive as the secondary master during cloning. In other words it would temporarily replace your DVD/CD drive.

As to an external drive you would be limited to data with the exception of finding software to clone an external drive and then subsequently other software to boot an external drive on the new machine.

All that being said you can back up your data via: http://aumha.org/win5/a/fast.php

And then do a clean install of XP and then reload your programs. This is by far the most stable method.




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Thanks for that.
rgds

Originally Posted by jephree

The only way to carry over your programs would be to Clone the drive. (Make an exact copy).

Even so you may have issues with drivers although you can try this method:

as Originally Posted by brain_damage:
http://www.d-a-l.com/help/showthread.php?t=31459

This would particularly apply if you removed and kept your current hard drive to move. The buyer of your old system would then need to add the hard drive and Operating System. This is just another option. Either way if you plan on transferring your Operating System then the old machine will be without one. Your XP Product Key is only valid on one computer.


The only limitation is the size of the new drive. For example Maxtor's MaxBlast has a cloning program that enables you to install a new Maxtor drive and clone your old one to it.

One tip if you do this is to set the receiving drive as the secondary master during cloning. In other words it would temporarily replace your DVD/CD drive.

As to an external drive you would be limited to data with the exception of finding software to clone an external drive and then subsequently other software to boot an external drive on the new machine.

All that being said you can back up your data via: http://aumha.org/win5/a/fast.php

And then do a clean install of XP and then reload your programs. This is by far the most stable method.




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