Rock <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Rock <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>>> I have a 40 GB HD in my laptop and have just bought a 160.
>>> I have already done a True Image of my C drive with XP on it and placed it on my external F drive.
>> You actually need an image of the physical drive, not just the partition.
>>> Now I want to take my current C Drive out and replace it with the F
>>> Drive 160GB one but need to have my XP up and running on it.
>>> How do I do this?
>> Make what TI calls the Bootable Rescue CD from the start menu.
>> Check that you can boot that with the 40GB drive still in the laptop
>> and that you can see the image you have created on the external
>> drive. When you can do that, replace the 40GB drive with the 160GB
>> drive and boot from the TI rescue CD again. Restore the image to the new 160GB drive. It will ask you if you want to
>> expand the partition to fill the new drive, say yes. Then boot off the 160GB drive.
>> It can get a bit more complicated than that with some
>> laptops, but you didnt say anything about which laptop
>> it is and its quite safe to try it and see if it works.
> Thank you so much. I will try it as soon as I am able to get the time.
> It is a Highlander Laptop (Cevo I think the generic brand is) I have had it 4 years or so. P4 2GBCPU.
The above mechanism should work fine.
Some laptops have hidden partitions used for maintenance etc, but that one doesnt.
> Never given me one day of trouble and it is on every day sometime for a week at a time sometimes using AC power.
> Don't want to upgrade to another but I will as this does not have USB2 plus other things as the tech evolves.
Yeah, thats the main thing people notice is missing first.
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