Transferring system to a new disk
Chapter 8.
Transferring system to a new
disk
8.1 General
information
Sooner or later any workstation user finds out his hard disk is too small. If you just
don’t have space for data, you can add another disk just for data storage as
described in the following chapter.
But it can happen so that your hard disk can't provide enough space for the
operating system and installed applications, preventing you from updating your
software. In this case you have to transfer system to a newer higher-capacity hard
disk.
To transfer your system to a new disk, you must first install in into the workstation.
If a workstation doesn’t have place for another hard disk, you can temporarily install it in the
place of your CD-ROM. If it’s still impossible, you can clone a hard disk by creating its image
and restoring it to a new hard disk with larger partitions.
There are two transfer modes available: automatic and manual.
In the automatic mode, you will just have to make several simple actions to transfer
all the data, including partitions, folders and files, to a newer disk making it
bootable (if the older was bootable as well).
There will be only one difference between these disks – partitions on the newer disk
will be larger. Everything else including the installed operating systems, data, disk
labels, etc. will remain the same.
Of course, this is the only result available in the automatic mode. The program can only
duplicate the older disk layout to the new one. To obtain different result, you will have to
answer additional questions about cloning parameters.
The manual mode will provide more data transfer flexibility.
1. You will be able to select the method of partitions and data transfer:
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As is;
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New disk space is proportionally distributed between the old disk partitions;
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New disk space is distributed manually.
2. You will also be able to select operations to perform on the old disk:
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Leave partitions (and data!) on the old disk;
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Remove all information from the old disk;
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Create new partitions on the old disk (and remove all the older information.)
