Replacing a HDD
My dad just got a new 160 gig drive to replace his 80 gig. The 80 is basically partitioned into 4 20 gig partitions. He wants to make the new drive
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He wants transfer all the files directly from the old drive to the new drive, maintaining all the files. I've basically gotten it to work, using Partition Magic 8, however I've run into a problem. After I make all the new drives the correct size and copy the old files over, and try to boot to windows on the new drive, It stops just before the welcome screen (XP pro), and hangs from there on (this happens when I disconnect the old drive).
I _think_ the problem is that XP still looks for files on the C: drive, but since the new drive has already been installed, and has a drive letter (I: or something), it doesn't know to look on itself, and not C:.
If I put the old drive back in the PC, and boot into XP on the new drive, there are no problems. Computer management will NOT let me change the letter of the new drive, because it is the SYSTEM drive.
Any help would be awesome.
He does not want to have to re-install
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46
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46
(That's easy
)He wants transfer all the files directly from the old drive to the new drive, maintaining all the files. I've basically gotten it to work, using Partition Magic 8, however I've run into a problem. After I make all the new drives the correct size and copy the old files over, and try to boot to windows on the new drive, It stops just before the welcome screen (XP pro), and hangs from there on (this happens when I disconnect the old drive).
I _think_ the problem is that XP still looks for files on the C: drive, but since the new drive has already been installed, and has a drive letter (I: or something), it doesn't know to look on itself, and not C:.
If I put the old drive back in the PC, and boot into XP on the new drive, there are no problems. Computer management will NOT let me change the letter of the new drive, because it is the SYSTEM drive.
Any help would be awesome.
He does not want to have to re-install
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If it's not cloned perfectly, it won't ever work. You have to use one of the three newest ghost versions and do a DOS clone.
Flint
Before you clone though, TURN OFF disk write caching. This can cause BIG problems when you are trying to start up a cloned drive that has just been transferred to the system drive position. Even if you run WinXP repair install mode on the new (cloned) the write caching data can wreak havoc on your configuration attempts.