saving harddrive image to a new pc

[Far]

i intend on getting on new cheap pc soon, to run a web server on. but for the moment i plan on setting up a dual boot system, having windows 7 and xp home. putting all the web server stuff on the xp home partition whilst i set up the site.

Once i get a new pc, am i able to save the whole image of this partition on to a cd, and load it on to the hard drive of my new pc?

So i dont have to reinstall everything once i get my new pc.

 

[Zen2]

Yes, You can google software to take an image and write it to DvD, Although you will need to get drivers ect for your new computer once tansfered.

 

[Far]

how would i go about installing that image on to a blank drive tho? i dont just want to transfer the image of a few folders, i wanna take all the system files/windows folder/registry along with it too.

 

[steve]

why dont you just upgrade the os then

 

[Far]

no no, i want to install everything on my xp partition, such as my webserver, mir server etc, and want to transfer the entire image of that hard drive on to my new pc wen i get it, to save me having to install and setup everything again.

 

[Zen2]

Yes yes... thats what i ment far check this out may help ya out

http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/backupandimage.shtml

 

[Kaori]

i intend on getting on new cheap pc soon, to run a web server on. but for the moment i plan on setting up a dual boot system, having windows 7 and xp home. putting all the web server stuff on the xp home partition whilst i set up the site.

Once i get a new pc, am i able to save the whole image of this partition on to a cd, and load it on to the hard drive of my new pc?

So i dont have to reinstall everything once i get my new pc.

That sounds like "Virtual PC"

XP should work well on virtual pc (some windows 7 versions comes with XP mode)

 

[Babyhack]

Can you not just ghost one HDD onto the other then just delete the W7 partition and merge the partitions back together

I know its an old guild but you will get what I mean http://www.bay-wolf.com/ghostclone.htm
It can even be done peer to peer and is easy to setup

BH