Re: Can I have two drives installed on EIDE with both having Boot

"lcnm" wrote:
I guess the Cloning SW would be one of the disk tools that came
with the WD drive. There is a Disk to Disk Copy tool that came
with the drive installation kit and it's instructions indicate that you
can go from and to particular partitions. Does that sound like what I should do?


If that is indeed true, yes it will do. If not, you can download a free
30-day trial copy of Casper Xp, which is a dedicated cloning utility
written expressly for the WinNT/2K/XP family of Windows OSes.
There is no obligation to buy. www.FSSdev.com/products/casperxp/ .

This utility can clone either single partitions from among several
partitions and put it onto a HD that already has other partitions, or
you can clone an entire HD and make that clone the entire contents
of another HD.

Just install the utility in the current OS, and tell it to clone the OS's
partition to an existing partition on the new HD, or to make a new
partition from unallocated space on the new HD. All formatting will
be carried over as part of the cloning process. When the cloning is
complete, shut down the PC and disconnect the source HD's data cable.
Then restart the PC, and the clone should start right up. Then you can
shut down again and reverse the jumpering on the 2 HDs so that
even with the both HDs hooked up, the OS on the new HD will be the
one that boots. If you're using Cable Select and the 2 HDs are on the
same cable, you can just reverse their positions. If they are on different
IDE cannels (i.e. different cables), exchange their positions and jumpering.
(Actually, in the last case, unless there is a 3rd HD present, just
exchanging their positions will do.)

It's important that when the clone starts for the 1st time it doesn't
see its "parent" OS, or some of the entries in the new OS's file table
will actually point to corresponding files in the "parent" OS's partition.
But once the clone has run on its own once, it can be started with its
"parent" visible to it, and it will not get confused. This is true regardless
what utility you use to do the cloning.

*TimDaniels*

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