Re: Moving an XP Pro installation to a new hard drive
From: SlowJet (SlowJet_at_noTY2this.com)
Date: 10/30/04
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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:18:29 GMT
For hundreds of thousands of people that have used Dataligeguard tools to
set up a new larger hard drive and the thousands that have tried the wrong
way by using XCOPY command I say to you,
BOLONGA. :)
SJ
"Andrew E." <eckrichco@msn.com> wrote in message
news:54049B31-AF42-4FD6-809A-44D7A9877214@microsoft.com...
> First off,the WDigital utility wont copy xp 99% of the time,actually its
> worth-
> less in xp.If the 4gb hd is ok,install as master,install the wd as slave
> on
> the
> same ide chain,on start-up,enter the BIOS,install xp cd,boot to xp cd
> (adjust
> in BIOS if needed),then boot to cd,recovery,type:DiskPart In DiskPart
> delete
> the partition for the wd drive,create one,then press Esc,then type:FORMAT
> D:
> /FS:ntfs D:being wd,when its thru type:EXIT Let xp start,then go to
> run,
> type:XCOPY C:\*.* D: /c/h/e/k/r In the DOS window agree to all,when its
> thru,youre done,shutdown computer,switch the jumpers on hds.D: being wd,
> but the letter is substitutable,remember xp doesnt copy very well,if
> thiers
> a
> problem,boot to cd,select,repair this copy of xp.
>
> "Joshua Beall" wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a machine that has totally run out of space. It was a mistake in
>> the
>> first place to have such a small drive in there (4gb), but it was
>> intended
>> to be only used for web surfing, email, and possibly some MS Office work.
>> I
>> happened to have all the spare parts on hand to build this machine, and
>> the
>> biggest drive I had lying around was 4gb.
>>
>> A few years have passed, and now we're constantly having space problems.
>> I
>> bought an 80gb WD drive, slaved it in, and used the WD utility that came
>> with the drive to copy the entire partition to the new drive. Then I
>> pulled
>> the old 4gb drive out, set the 80gb to be the master (cable select,
>> actually - and it correctly shows up as the primary master). Wouldn't
>> boot.
>> Ok, not too surprising, I figured I would have to fixmbr and fixboot. I
>> stuck the XP Pro CD in, loaded the recovery console, did a fixmbr, and
>> then
>> fixboot.
>>
>> Now things started to get hairy. I got an error stating "FIXBOOT cannot
>> find the system drive, or the drive specified is not valid". Uh oh.
>> Tried
>> "fixboot c:", and that reported success. However, when I rebooted the
>> machine, it didn't work. Looks on IDE-0 for boot information and says
>> "not
>> found."
>>
>> So, what now? Is there no way to copy everything over to the new drive
>> and
>> just chuck the old one? I can also leave it in as a slave, if that
>> works.
>> But I want to get the system running off the new drive, so the system
>> drive
>> has some free space on it. How do I do this?
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> -Josh
>>
>>
>>
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