Re: Migrating Win200 to a new Drive from Dual Boot Setup
From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 05/22/04
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Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 23:48:13 +1000
"David W. Swager" <dwswager@knology.net> wrote in message
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> I've searched a gazillion posts on copying one drive to another and found
> every possible combination except the one I have.
>
> The system has a 30GB IBM Deskstar EIDE hard drive with 3 partitions. C
> drive is a 250 MB FAT partition. D Drive is a 8GB FAT32 Partition that
has
> Win98 on it. E Drive is a 20 GB NTFS partition with Win2000 on it. This
> dual boot was nice, but is no longer needed. I would like to install a
new
> 80GB Drive with 2 partitions C (30GB) Win 2000 bootable and a data
> partitions D (50GB). I then will add the 30 GB drive as a slave drive E.
>
> The boot.ini file looks like this:
> [boot loader]
> timeout=10
> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINNT
> [operating systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
> Professional" /fastdetect
> C:\ = "Microsoft Windows"
>
> Is there a way to move the Win200 configuration to the new drive (C:,
first
> partition) as a single OS on the system? How is this done or can you
point
> me to a web site with this information?
>
> Would you recomend FAT32 or NTFS on the drives? My wife connects to the
> current FAT32 and NTFS partitions via her Win98 laptop just fine right
now.
>
> The computer has an Asus CUSL2 motherboard and Pentium III 733 processor.
>
> Thanks for any help you may provide!
There is a simple answer to your question: If Windows 2000
saw the light of the day on drive E: then it will have to spend
the rest of its life on drive E:. It's not a question of boot.ini -
this file is only used during the boot process - it's the large
number of references in the registry that all point to E:.
You can try to change them with some registry editor,
and you will most likely cripple your system.
This is why the best and most flexible boot managers
allow you to run ***every*** OS from drive C:, by hiding
the other OSs. XOSL is one of those; the Win2000 boot
manager is not.
FAT32 vs. NTFS - NTFS is the native Win2000 file system.
It offers good security but thends to be slower if you have
you have folders with more than 5000 files. The fact that
your wife makes a connection to your PC from her Win98
PC is irrelevant - her PC is not affected by your choice.
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