how to change out system disk?

From: Doug Floer (spam_at_localhost.com)
Date: 05/10/04 

Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:40:19 -0700

I need some help changing out my system disk. Here's my config. I have 3
disks:

Disk 0 (9 GB SCSI): c: (bootblock and boot.ini (old NT4)) and two data
partitions (t:, g:)
Disk 1 (18 GB SCSI): d: (W2K (unused)), y: (data), j: (XP), k: (Program
Files)
Disk 2 (36 GB SCSI): unallocated

My main goal is to simply to move the partitions and contents of disk 1 to
larger partitions on disk 2. I'd like to remove disk 0 and just have disk 2
as the boot disk, too, but this is secondary.

I've used ghost to replicate the partitions and then removed disk 1 from the
system and changed the SCSI ID of disk 2 to disk 1 but XP complained that
the license couldn't be verified.

Can anyone out there advise how this can be done without reinstallation or
program/data loss?

Thanks!

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