Re: Installing additional SCSI hard drives

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"Henri" <bedpost@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
> > "Henri" <bedpost@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >
> >>I have a 933 mHz PIII with a SCSI hard drive that is too small and
> >>probably past it prime. A new, much larger, SCSI hard drive is in hand
> >>but I would like to install it and make it the primary hard drive while
> >>keeping the existing hard drive as a secondary hard drive for
> >>non-critical storage.
> >>
> >>My guess is that I want to 1) manually erase all of the W2K-Pro
> >>operating system files from the existing hard drive while leaving all
> >>other files on the old drive intact, 2) change the SCSI addresses for
> >>the new and old hard drives to reflect which drive is going to be
> >>primary; 3) boot the machine from a floppy and run FDISK (from the
> >>floppy) to create the partitions desired on the new hard drive; 4) do a
> >>new 'clean' OS install on the new primary hard drive; 5) reinstall
> >>applications to an appropriate partition(s) on the new hard drive; and
> >>6) copy any data files from the old hard drive to an appropriate
> >>location(s) on the new hard drive.
> >>
> >>My question is whether such a scheme will work? In particular, what
> >>will happen to the existing partition drive lettering on the old hard
> >>drive? Will they change automatically to follow the partition lettering
> >>of the new hard drive? Will I have to somehow change the 'primary'
> >>designation of the 'C' partition on the old hard drive before installing
> >>the new hard drive? My experience with FDISK is that when it is used on
> >>any hard drive it destroys all data on the drive.
> >>
> >>All suggestions on how to proceed will be greatfully received and any
> >>pointers about books or other references on such drive reinstallations
> >>will be most appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Is there a reason to do a re-installation instead of cloning the old
> > installation?
> >
> > Your drive letters are likely to change but you can set them to
> > your liking by running diskmgmt.msc.
> >
> >
> One reason is that I know how to reinstall W2K-Pro from scratch and
> don't know how to clone an old installation.
>
> How do I clone the old installation to the new drive? It sounds like
> cloning would certainly make things easier. Point me to a book or guide
> if the procedure is involved.
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
>

There are several easy ways to clone a disk. Here are two of them:

a) By using another PC:
- Install the two disks and the SCSI adapter in some other Win2000/XP PC.
- Use xcopy.exe with the appropriate switches to copy hidden files,
system files and permissions to the new disk.

b) By booting with a Bart PE CD
- Boot the machine with a Bart PE CD (www.bootdisk.com).
- Use xcopy.exe with the appropriate switches to copy hidden files,
system files and permissions to the new disk.

To make a Bart PE CD, you need a CD burner, a WinXP Professional
CD (but no licence number) and about three hours of your time.

To finish things off for a) and b), you must do this:
- Disconnect the old disk.
- Jumper the new disk to be the correct SCSI boot device.
- Boot the machine with your Win2000 CD.
- Get into Recovery Console.
- Run these commands:
fixboot
fixmbr
- Boot the machine normally.

After the first successful boot with the new disk, you can reconnect
the old disk and boot the machine normally.


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