Re: Moving all data from one hard drive to another.

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The method I use occurs within the boot manager confines of my PC. I copy
one partition at time. When done, hide all those copied primary partitions
if the slave hard drive is to remain onboard after copying.

If the slave is to become the boot drive, I move the slave to master and
boot from that. Remove the original master hard drive. No hiding
partitions in that case.

If the original hard drive is to be retained for other purposes, I wipe all
the original partitions, create new ones and format them. Again within the
boot manager confines. Of course it would be jumpered slave.

Boot manager is system commander.

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"Aamir" <no@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OK, quick question. Can you move all data, including the OS (WinXP),
from the master hard drive to the slave drive? If so, How do you go
about doing this?



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