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My harddrive is making noises (allthough it's still working OK). I'd like to swap
it with a newer drive. I have two physical hd's: The first has a boot partition which let's me choose booting to either Win98 or Win2000 and then logical partitions from c,d,e,f,g,h,i. Win98 is on h: and win2000 on d:. The size of the hd 15.74 GB as reported by Win2000 disk manager The second physical hd has just one big logical j drive. This hd is newer and size is about 42 GB. All drives c: thru j: are currently fat32 (not hpfs). I want to swap the first physical hd. What I'm aiming to do is add a third 120GB physical hd (k (I've got spare ide channels) and copy all the stuff from firstphysical hd to that new hd. Then I'm going to power down and swap the 15GB with the 120GB drive and boot again. If all goes well I have a newer system hd-wise. If problems arise I can swap the back the drives and resume. My question is: which tool I should use to copy the old hd data to the new drive? If above possible at all when the drives and different? I know I may get a 15GB drive out of my 120GB this way but I can use Partition magic to make use of the available GBs. -------------------------- To reply via email replace letter "G" from email address: joGGo2G@iGGGconG.fGGGi |
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(I've got spare ide channels) and copy all the stuff from first
