I have an IBM ThinkPad T21 (PIII) w/ a tiny (12 GB) HDD. Both W2K & XP
Prof are installed on the same partition. My wife has complicated
connections to schools she no longer goes to & the connections could
not be re-established/configured again if I lost the current settings
on this disk. Unfortunately, some of these connections work on W2K,
others on XP, so I would like to keep both operating systems, as is.
On the other hand, the disk is just too small even for apps. I bought
a new 60 GB 7200 RPM Hitachi 2.5" HDD & I want to clone (using Norton
Ghost 2003) the current internal 12 GB C: HDD (w/ all settings, exact
copy) onto the new disk, which I could connect (in an external
enclosure) up via FireWire for the time of cloning. Then I would want
to swap the old internal 12 GB disk to the new 60 GB, assigning the
latter as C:, but I am concerned because of the different drivers &
hardware settings of the new HDD. Is it possible to create an exact
clone of my current C: on the new disk & just swap disks, w/ all the
apps & settings working identically?