Re: Cloning my C Drive onto D...

Hi Pegasus.

I've cloned my C drive onto D twice, both with equal success (or
failure, depending on how you look at it!).

First time was with HDClone, second time with DrvClonerXP. I tried the
second program - having deleted all files from my D drive first - after
the clone with HDClone produced the effects I've described. But
DrvClonerXP produced just the same result.

Maybe it's a lost cause, but I'm looking for a simple solution if there
is one; or at least a step-by-step guide on how to get my Win2K Pro OS
from C to D in such a way that D will be able to be redesignated Master
HD.

Thanks for your input -


TM.


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Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
> "trevormidgley" <trevormidgley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1114955454.593923.100510@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > My computer runs Win2K Professional. I have two hard drives, C & D.
The
> > OS is installed on C.
> >
> > Both HDs are quite small, and I'm in the process of replacing both.
> > As a first stage, because D was only 2GB(!), I've recently
installed
> > a larger HD in its place (jumpered as "slave"). I've cloned the
> > existing C onto the new D (completely successfully), adjusted the
BIOS
> > to boot up from IDE2 (my D drive), and everything works fine -
> > almost...
> >
> > The problem is, if I disconnect the C drive from the system (both
> > physically and through the BIOS), I get a "boot failure" message
> > from the BIOS when trying to start up, even though the BIOS is
> > configured to boot from IDE2.
> >
> > Reconnect the C drive, and boot up from IDE2 goes ahead as normal.
(I
> > know it is IDE2 - the D drive - that's booting by the way,
> > because at 7200rpm, boot up is considerably faster than from the
old C
> > drive which runs at 5400.)
> >
> > The C drive partition shows up as "active" in My Computer
> > management, the D partition as "system".
> >
> > I would mention one other little snag, which I guess is probably
> > symptomatic of the main problem.
> >
> > Even after a successful boot from the D drive, I'm unable to access
> > Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. All I get is the message,
> > "mshta.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You
> > will need to restart the program. An error log is being created."
> >
> > However, if I reboot from the C drive, Add/Remove Programs in
Control
> > Panel reappears.
> >
> > Can anyone offer some advice as to what I'm doing wrong? Once I
have
> > a properly working OS on the new D drive, I'd like to remove the
old
> > C, replace that, and transfer the my OS back. Or isn't this the
best
> > way to go about it?
> >
> > Any thoughts gratefully appreciated.
> >
>
> You write "I've cloned the existing C onto the new D (completely
> successfully)" but you don't say how exactly you performed the
> cloning process. Depending on how you did it, your cloning may
> only be partitial.
>
> You have several options to clone a hard disk:
> a) By using a commercial disk imaging program such as the one
> suggested by Dave Patrick.
> b) By using the cloning program downloadable from the home
> site of your disk manufacturer (perhaps).
> c) By Booting the machine with a Bart PE disk (www.bootdisk.com),
> then using xcopy.exe to clone the disk.
> d) By temporarily installing both disks as slave disks in another
> Win2000/XP machine, the using xcopy.exe.
>
> Option c) and d) are somewhat laborious in that you will have
> to restore the Win2000 boot environment.
>
> It is important that you do NOT boot the machine with
> both disks inserted after cloning.

.

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