Re: installing os to 2nd hard drive

In the absence of such a CD, you can download a free 30-day
trial copy of Casper XP from www.FSSdev.com/products/casperxp/ .
The only restriction imposed on the free trial version is that the
clone OS will be in a partition of the same size as the original OS's
partition.

BTW, standard cloning technique for WinXP/NT/2K is to have the
"parent" OS invisible to the clone when the clone boots up for the
first time. The easiest way to do this (if the clone resides on
another HD) is to simply disconnect the data cable from the original
HD when booting the clone for the first time. The clone will
automatically move to the head of the default HD boot order when
the original HD is removed, so no re-jumpering is necessary to boot
the clone. After booting in isolation for the first time, the clone on
subsequent boots may be allowed to see its "parent" OS without
any problems.

*TimDaniels*


"Jerry" wrote:
Hard drive manufacturers provide programs to do what you want. These should be on the CD you got with the new drive or can be downloaded from the manufacturer's web site.

"sggack" wrote:
I have a HP Pavilion comp. original drive is partition for c drive and d
drive. D drive is for the HP recovery program. the computer was already
loaded with Windows XP Home ed. so I dont have a cd. I have installed a
second hard drive G into my computer and formated for files.
on tuesday or wed my after having updates to windows done, computer was
restarted and I started getting a smart error dectecting that my C drive is
about to have iminent failure.
What I would like to do is this, Install the os onto the 2nd hard drive,
transfer everything from 1st hd to 2 hd. then make 2nd hard drive as master
and original as 2nd drive for saving until I get a new one to replace it.
ok, is this possible to do without losing information back up files, etc?
can you point me the steps to do or a website to print the steps?
any cautions etc?


Thanks in advance


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