Re: Moving an XP Pro installation to a new hard drive

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From: SlowJet (SlowJet_at_noTY2this.com)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:25:47 GMT

Dataligeguard version 11 is needed.
The knolodgebase on the WD site has specific instructions.
It even matters if you have 2 WD's or 1 with a non-WD as to the other on the
cable. (do not install the EZ BIOS) If your computer's BIOS will not alow an
80 GB partition, you are hosed. Install clean.

After the copy and reboot if you get a message, there are follow through
things to do.

1. Is a restore fix. RS.INF

2. A repair operation may be needed.

The most impoostant thing is the source disk must be in good shape.
Defraged, chkdsk /r, virus, adware (it's all there in the WD KB. It just
takes a bit of searching to stay on trck about what your particular case is
about.)

SJ
"Joshua Beall" <jbeall@donotspam.remove.me.heraldic.us> wrote in message
news:52zgd.3313$vJ.155@trnddc02...
> 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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