Re: How Do You Increase Size of Windows 200x Boot Volume?

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"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> There are several well-documented processes for this type of thing.
> Here are a few of them:
> a) Install a temporary version of Win200 Server on your new disk
> in a folder other than c:\Windows, then use ntbackup.exe to
> restore the previously backed up version.
> b) Use an imaging program such as Acronis, Ghost or DriveImage.
> c) Boot the server with a Bart PE boot CD, then use xcopy.exe
> with the appropriate switches to copy all files & folders to the
> new disk.
>
> I think that method a) is a little tedious, so I usually use methods b)
> or c). Method c) is particularly useful when the source disk is
> damaged, because imaging programs tend to baulk at them.
>
>

It's also possible to "just" image the disk with sysstate and all by
NTbackup in the current installation, but restoring to the new disk. After
that, it's only a matter of mounting the SYSTEM hive of the new disk and
manipulating the volume mappings to make the disk signature of the new disk
point to the old drive letter. In the process, one will of course also have
to discard or change the drive letter association of the old disk.

(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices is the relevant registry key --
note that it has to be in the registry hives of the copy, NOT the source.)

This can also be highly useful if the two disks are on different
controllers, or anything else that may cause INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE when
only copying.

I would naturally not recommend this to anyone that won't touch regedit in
general, but I've done it quite a few times. I'm actually kind of surprised
that you can use method "c" without this final fix afterwards.

/Carl


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