Re: Adding a drive

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Cloning means making an identical copy. If the source drive was bootable,
the destination drive is bootable. No reason to prepare the destination
drive first - whatever changes you make will get overwritten.

Instead of working on principles, RTFM. Use the instructions and software
that came with the new drive (if it was a retail drive - if it's not a
retail drive good luck to you.) You can also buy third party disc cloning
software.

--
Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."

<me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm beset with irritating problems right now like boot up CD's that
booted 10 minutes ago no longer booting. But just in general
principles is it right to prepare the new slave first with partition,
making the first one a primary? Then clone from an image of the old
drive to the first partiton of the new drive, having disconnected the
old drive and made the slave new drive a master.

I think the principle is right, if only the boot disk wouldn't let me
down.

Colin

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