Creating a new bootable hard drive
- From: "Gordon Biggar" <colonel_biggs@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 00:22:42 -0500
One of my computers, which uses a 200 GB hard drive, goes into a loop when
booting up (presumably, a Windows or registry problem?) Booting up in the
Safe mode, or in the Last Known Good Configuration mode, produces the same
results. I have installed this drive as a slave on another Windows 2000
computer, and all of the files/folders are accessible/recognizable.
I have a second computer with a 320 GB hard drive that is a duplicate (files
and folders) of the one that has failed. My thought is to format the failed
drive, and to copy all of the files/folders over to the re-formatted drive.
Naturally, life is not that simple. What process must I go through to make
the failed drive a bootable drive? When I installed it originally, the
system was made to recognize the drive as a large-size drive. Will the
formatting of the drive destroy this? Once it becomes a bootable drive, can
I then use something like Windows Explorer to copy over all of the
files/folders (assuming that the re-formatted drive is used as a slave drive
on the 320 GB machine)?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Gordon Biggar
Houston, Texas
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