How to cut & paste complete operating system on another drive?

**rohit007** · 26-08-2008

Hi,
I have my windows XP installed on it.
recently i bought a new larger Hard Disk for me. I don't want to use the old HDD anymore & use it as a storage for media files only. I don't want to install a fresh copy on this new HDD. Can i simply cut+pest entire Operating System on this new Hard Disk? Do you guys think this is possible?
Thanks

**Ettan** · 26-08-2008

Why don't you install a fresh copy on your new Hard Disk?
This is the best option! But still i will try to fins an answer to your problem.

**rohit007** · 26-08-2008

Well thank for the reply but i dont want to install new copy on this Drive because i have installed lots of softwares on that Hard Disk & i dont want to install them all over again. I have also configures the Operating System according to my needs! This is the basic reason.

**Bhairav** · 26-08-2008

Yes you can but you need a hard drive cloner because simply copying the files won't work. Has to be a sector by sector copy.
For example XXclone
Norton Ghost is also a great software!