Re: Copy and swap hard drive
- From: "Greg Maxey" <gmaxey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:34:22 -0500
Anna/Pegasus
I am replying to you both from one place. I will also apologize for being
stupid in this arena.
Here is the current situation Drive 0 contains a 160G drive with:
C: the system drive
D: Programs
E: Data
F: Swap Files
Drive 1 Contains a 250G drive with:
J: exact copy of C: with MBR
K: exact copy of D:
L: exact copy of E:
M: exact copy of F;
End state that I want:
Drive 0 Contains the larger 250G drive with the following partitions:
C:
D:
E:
F:
I then want to but the old smaller drive back in the system and remame its
partition letters.
I was at this same state earlier and I did this:
I did boot the machine immediately after the copying. When I did, windows
booted up normally expect for ChkDsk scanned the drive J;
I then removed the smaller drive in 0 and moved the larger drive to 0. I
left the smaller drive out of the system.
I tried to boot the machine and it froze at the windows welcome screen. I
think I know why it did this now.
I next tried to boot with the WindowsXP disk to do a repair. While doing
so, the repair process asked for a file on C:\something or another and then
it froze. It was my sound card driver I think and I think it is why windows
froze on the welcome screen.
At this point I realized that I was in deep doodoo. Fortunately I was able
to but the old smaller drive back in the system and reboot. I figure that
the attempted repair had boogered up my copy of C:\ on the new larger drive,
so I have recreated my exact copy and ready for the next step.
Anna, unfortunately I no longer have your 13 steps available.
I understand now that I am not to boot with both disks in the system after
making the copy. However, I am not sure exactly what it is that I do need
to do. Here are some quesitions:
Anna you say:
Immediately following the cloning operation and the shutdown of your
machine, disconnect your source drive and
boot ONLY to the newly-cloned drive (as indicated in step 13. above). DO NOT
BOOT IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CLONING OPERATION WITH BOTH DRIVES CONNECTED.
1. When I disconnect the source drive, do I move the cloned or copied drive
cable to the Disk 0 position now or later?
2. When I do boot with the source drive removed, I know from the exerience
earlier that Windows is going to be looking for my Sound Card Driver with a
pointer looking in drive C:\. Will I need to first perform the fixmbr
procedure that Pegasus mentions or will the simple act of rebooting with
just the cloned drive intalled result in fixing the mbr.
3. When I am up and running with the new larger drive, how do I then change
its drive letters to C:, D:, E:, and F? When that is done, is there another
process to fixmbr?
4. When I do get the new drive partition renamed, what happens when I put
the old drive back in? I will have two drive with the same partition
labels. How to I correct that.
Anna I will try search google groups for your earlier post, but I am afraid
I need more detailed help from one of your experts here before I brave the
deep water again.
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Greg Maxey/Word MVP
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Greg Maxey wrote:
> I have a 160G hard drive in the disk 0 position of my controller. I
> bought a 250G hard drive that I want to make my primary drive (in
> disk 0 postion) and move the 160G to drive position 1 to use for
> storing backups, images, etc.
>
> The current 160G drive has four partitions. System C:, Programs D:,
> Data E:, and Swap File F:,
>
> Using Norton Ghost I copied C:, D:, E: and F;< to the 250G drive that
> I put in Disk 1 position temporarilly. Now I have an exact copy of
> the small disk on the larger disk. This part was easy (an perhaps a
> complete waste of time).
>
> The 250G drive now has four partitions J:, K:, L:, and M: I set J:
> to be an active drive and loaded the Master Boot Record files to it.
>
> Now I am in a log jam. How do I change the drive letters on the
> larger drive that I want to be primary to and how do I get XP to boot
> up on the new drive (I want it in Position 0 ultimately).
>
> I tried taking the smaller drive out of the system and moving the new
> larger drive to position 0 and then rebooting the machine. I thought
> that once booted that I could change the drive letters. For some
> reason WindowsXP froze on the welcome screen. I even tried to repair
> the installation on the new drive but the reinstallation froze at the
> 27 minute mark.
> Can anyone direct me to how to achieve this. Thanks.
.
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