My hard drive is currently dying. I get BIOS warnings and I can hear it. I have ordered a new SATA drive to replace it and I would like to transfer my boot partition to the new drive (I have it partitioned into boot and storage areas). What is the easiest way to do this and will I have to jump through XP validation hoops once I do?

10/20/2009 4:25:37 PM

Bueller... Bueller?

10/21/2009 3:28:44 PM

acronis makes a program that will do this

and there are plenty of free boot CD's with utilities that will do this..google.

10/21/2009 3:39:58 PM

http://lifehacker.com/5303067/five-best-free-system-restore-tools

10/21/2009 4:09:41 PM

cool. i actually need to do this too

10/21/2009 5:52:47 PM

basically you just need to image the partition and restore the image to the new drive.

[Edited on October 21, 2009 at 6:22 PM. Reason : l]

10/21/2009 6:22:07 PM