[Ham-Computers] Copy OS?

[john]

Message from 30 year tech. 1.Better to install a FRESH O/S install on a FORMATTED Hard Drive. 2. There is a connecting device from your machine to the external HD for about $15,00. 3. Win XP is a security played O/s and no longer supported. 4. Win 7 is still available on E Bay and for the most part is back wards compatible. WARNING O/S is not generally copied over complete...unless you use a "Special Program" that copys bit by bit at the lowest level . 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Ron Youvan" <ka4inm at gmail.com> 
To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2015 6:49:27 AM 
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Copy OS? 

On 07/25/2015 01:36 AM, Kurt KD7JYK DM09 wrote: 

> I have a 4 GB primary hard drive. About 1/3 is OS, the other 1/3 e-mail. 
> Misc files take up all but 400 MB. 

> Can I copy the entire drive to my archival drive which has many tens of GB 
> of space, put in a larger C: drive, then copy eveything, OS and all, back to 
> the new large C: drive and expect it to run? 

If you are using LINUX or Unix yes you can, I have done it, if not, no. 

-- 
Ron KA4INM - Youvan's corollary: 
Every action results in unwanted side effects. 
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