Re: Creating a new bootable hard drive


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"Gordon Biggar" <colonel_biggs@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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




You cannot simply copy the files over

you need cloning software such as Acronis

Sorry to disagree but you actually can if you do it correctly. I've done
it
several times.


Wow. That's news to me.

I know you could with Win9x.
all you'd have to do is "sys" the drive afterwards.

But with Win2k and XP how can you transfer the MFT/System Volume
Information & swapfile...over?

I'd sure appreciate it if you told me exactly how you did it.

The truth is I have never tried it simply because I assumed it could never
work.

If it's as simple as just copying the whole drive over, why does everyone
use cloning software?


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