Jetheat
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How do I move Programs from one HDD to another?
I have 2 SATA Hard Drives. My Main C Drive is nearly full and so I want to move most of my Program files to the new Hard Drive.
Instead of uninstalling and reinstalling in the new location, is there an easier way to move the physical files to the new drive whilst launching them from a 'ghost type' icon in the C drive?
Instead of uninstalling and reinstalling in the new location, is there an easier way to move the physical files to the new drive whilst launching them from a 'ghost type' icon in the C drive?
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Ghost - and my preferred app, Drive Image, will take a picture of the exact contents of your existing disk and then allow you to restore it to a new disk, including restoring it to a LARGER partition.
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When you say restore it, does that mean it just makes a ghost icon or does it kind of copy everything including the links and registry files? Is it exactly the same as installing the same program onto another drive?
Ghosting over an image makes a exact copy of the source drive and installs it on another drive, it will look just like the drive drive that that you started with. The only thing you will notice is that you have more room on the hard drive. I use ghost all the time, works great...
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What does Ghost do?
If I just ghost me C onto the new drive, how will that benefit me? Shouldn't I install the programs on the new drive first and then ghost it onto the c drive so that I can launch applications from the C drive? Is that how to use Ghost?