Changing the OS hardrive

[Soulassassin]

The hardrive I have in my comp is basically too noisy and enough is enough. So I might buy two quieter drives and I want em installed with a raid 0 setup (I think thats the faster one right?). I have windows vista home premium which was installed when I bought the computer although I have no disk with vista on it.

Sooo, what would be the best way to change the drives?
Can I download Vista home premium and just reinstall using my legit key or will it be better to get some imaging software and make an image?

Will the fact I want to go to a raid setup be an issue with either options?

Thought it would be best to ask before I buy any drives. Oh and anyone know what would be the quietest drives (within reason) was thinking about two samsumg spinpoints at 750Gb each and 32mb cache? The drive I have atm is a seagate sata 500gb.

[DJ OD]

Use Norton Ghost to make an image file of your existing drive and save it on DVD. Using Norton Ghost you can install the image file of your existing drive to your RAID0.

Accronis True Image may be able to do it too.


DJ OD

[Soulassassin]

Use Norton Ghost to make an image file of your existing drive and save it on DVD. Using Norton Ghost you can install the image file of your existing drive to your RAID0.

Accronis True Image may be able to do it too.


DJ OD

Right...Just got to 'trim' the 220Gb on my drive atm down to about 8Gb...lol

Is it possible to put the image onto a seperate hardrive instead of a dvd? and will Norton ghost need special sata drivers like when u install xp onto a raid?

[wakadoo]

Right...Just got to 'trim' the 220Gb on my drive atm down to about 8Gb...lol

Is it possible to put the image onto a seperate hardrive instead of a dvd? and will Norton ghost need special sata drivers like when u install xp onto a raid?

i use acronis true image m8 and yes you can save the backup to ANY drive , make an acronis boot cd and then u can install the image from any drive to any drive..

oh and i made a 62 gig back up last time so dont worry about reducing its size as you dont need to....

[DJ OD]

Acronis rocks ;-)


DJ OD

[casio]

there was a link on here a while back to a german site that has a bit of sw that will make an image of the drive within windows, so you dont have to mess around booting different bits and bobs to get an image, and it was fast too, i'll see if i can find it

edit -found it
http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/