Re: Resequence Hard Drive Connections

Mike is right in hia assesment but there is another way.
Leave the original drive in its original location on the cable and hook up
the new drive as the slave drive on the same cable.Dont forget to jumper it
as a slave.
You will have to format the new drive in order to use it...admin tools/disk
managent
Take a look at the programs you have on the old drive and see which ones you
have the original CD to....remove those under control Panel/add&remove and
reinstall to the new drive.This will make some room on the old drive for
future XP updates
Any new programs/games that you install in the future can be installed onto
the new drive you just need to watch during the install.
This way you have changed nothing,XP is still where its expected to be and
you have lots of room on the new drive for whatever
peter
"The Toyman" <o1nyx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I need to resequence an existing hard drive setup for a friend. He added a
> 160GB Seagate (SG) to supplement a 13GB Western Digital Caviar (WD). The
> Seagate is jumpered as a master - shows up in the BIOS as Primary master
> (plugged into IDE1 connector). The Western Dig. is jumpered as a single
> drive (only drive in the box), and shows up in the BIOS as a Secondary
> master. I think it's showing as Secondary master because it was plugged
> into IDE2 connector on a separate cable. I'll change that to have both on
> the same cable going to IDE1. Boot files were copied from the WD to the
> SG,
> and the system boots from the SG.
>
> All programs are on the WD, but the Registry thinks they're still on the
> boot drive (the SG) At least programs won't run from the Start button -
> will run OK from the executable file. To try to hopefully 'fix' things, I
> hope to:
>
> 1. unplug the SG (pull the power & data cable) so the PC sees the WD
> as
> the boot drive
> 2. boot the PC
> 3. install XP, SP 2 (so the machine will see all avail. space on the
> SG). Have it on CD from MS. SP 1 has not been installed.
> 4. plug in the SG and jumper it as slave, and jumper the WD as master
> 5. boot the PC
> 6. run Partition Magic (PM) and use the 'copy' function to copy
> (mirror?) all files from the WD to the SG.
> 7. Rejumper the SG as master, and the WD as slave
> 8. Cross my fingers, boot the beast, and hope it works.
>
> Here's a major problem: The XP Pro O/S disk is lost, so if I need to
> re-do
> the O/S, I'm up the proverbial 'crick' without the proverbial paddle.
>
> Here's some questions:
>
> 1. I've heard from others who have tried to install SP 2, that it
> could: 1) lock/freeze the O/S, necessitating an O/S reinstall; 2) the O/S
> disk must be inserted to verify it's a legitimate copy before SP 2 will
> install. Having no O/S disk will put me up that 'crick'. Any thoughts
> here?
>
> 2. After I do #'s 1 & 2 above (unplug the SG & boot the PC), is there
> anything I need to do in the BIOS or Windows - e.g. remove the SG from the
> BIOS, or will that happen automatically? And how about Windows?
>
> 3. I assume plugging in the SG (#4 & 5 above) will simply be a case of
> 'follow the instructions', which I have.
>
> 4. Also, when reinstalling the SG, should I format & partition it, or
> leave it alone, since it's formatted, partitioned and in use now?
>
> 5. I've tried running PM from the boot floppy & CD, but keep getting
> an
> error message about 'the hard disks are recognized, and the appropriate
> software is installed, but hasn't been activated' (not the exact words,
> but
> close). Then it goes back to a DOS prompt. Since the WD wasn't on the
> same
> cable as the SG, nor jumpered as a slave, I'm hoping that
> recabling/rejumpering it will 'fix' this problem. If not, then I guess
> I'll
> be back for more help. Comments here would be appreciated.
>
> Here's another thought re PM: I've never used PM for this purpose before
> (have Norton Ghost, but have never used it and know nothing about it).
> I'm
> assuming that the drive with all of the programs (the WD) needs to be the
> boot drive (maybe not?). I wonder if it's possible to copy all files from
> the WD to the SG, with the SG as the boot drive & the WD as the slave.
> Then
> I could simply try to install SP 2 onto the SG, and if successful, use PM
> to
> copy all files from the WD to the SG. That's if I can get past the boot,
> error message.
>
> This entire operation should be pretty straight-forward, but since I don't
> have experience, don't know how to respond to the PM error messages, and
> especially since I don't have an XP Pro O/S disk, I'm reluctant to 'damn
> the
> torpedoes, full speed ahead'.
>
> Comments, observations & opinions are welcome, particularly if you have
> experience with some or all of this.
>
> I've been to the 'windowsxp.newusers' group - it was suggested I come
> here.
>
> Toyman
>
>


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