Re: changing harddisk without a re-install of XP and programs

From: Timothy Daniels (TDaniels_at_NoSpamDot.com)
Date: 01/23/05 

Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:44:18 -0800

"Beemer Biker" wrote:
> If the new disk was previously formatted and you boot, windows
> can assign the swap file to the new disk. Then, when you make
> a backup of the OS, the backup is aware that the 2nd disk is
> used for the swap file. Later, when you swap drives and install
> the OS on the new drive, there is no swap file any more. The very
> first time you boot windows on your new disk, it cannot find the
> swap file and complains it is missing or corrupt. It will not boot.
> You can avoid this by not haveing the new disk drive on the
> controller when making the original backup. Re-writing the MBR
> also fixes the problem. I dont think this is just an acronis problem.
> IANE on this but it has happened 3 times to me using acronis and
> you cannot boot into safe mode when it happens. An easy fix is
> fdisk/mbr from any dos or win98 boot disk.

    I agree that it isn't an Acronis problem, and why the swap file gets
    assigned to the 2nd HD is something I've never heard of. Maybe
    the partition on the 1st HD is so full that the OS needs more space
    than is available on the 1st HD to provide a swap file of the size
    that you have defined for it. If you boot up the OS on the 1st HD
    without the 2nd HD connected, does the OS complain about lack
    of space for a swap file?

*TimDan*

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