upgrading from 40 gig to 200 gig

[Cyber-Rogue]

I have a 40 GIG Western Digital hard drive currently as a master.
I have a 20 GIG as a slave.
I just bought a 200 GIG.

1. I want to remove/disconnect the 20 gig (for now)
2. I want to copy the 40 gig over to the 200 gig and use the 200 as a
master.
3. I want to KEEP the 40 gig connected as a slave and NOT reformat it
for about 30 days. Once I feel comfortable that the 200 gig is running
fine and not crashing I'll reformat the 40 gig.
What's the best way to do this?
I'm worried about the computer crashing as I'll have 2 boot drives.


Running Windows 2000 sp2 (I imagine I need to upgrade to at least SP3
before I start all of this)

Drive is formatted using NTFS.

Thanks

 

[Bjorn Landemoo]

The biggest problem with your strategy is to "copy the 40 gig over to the
200 gig", if you by this also mean to get a working Win2000 installation.
Other problems involve BIOS limitations and the 48-bit LBA problem.

I would reinstall Win2000 on the new disk, including all applications, on a
partition less than 128GB. Next step would be to connect the 40GB disk and
copy over data to the 200GB one.

Your computer will not crash because you have two bootable drives. It only
boots from the primary master, and will - at this time during bootup - not
even be aware that there are other disks.

Best regards

Bjorn

 

[Cyber-Rogue]

Thanks

Found a somewhat easier way to do what I wanted that worked.

1. Tried to copy 40 gig to 200 gig then boot from 200 gig. Didn't
work. Windows hangs up or gives black screen and no desktop.
(Changed jumpers on hd of course)

2. So I tried again to ghost 40 gig over to 200 gig.
3. Made a backup of 3 things
a. Documents and settings folder
b Winnt folder
c.system state(registry)
made this backup to 200 gig

4. Made a new CD of Windows 2000 with SP3 slipstreamed into it.

5. shutdown and change jumpers so 200 gig is now master

6. Reboot with Windows CD in Cd drive. Do a New installation of
windows into WINNT folder erasing old settings.

7. Once up and running restore backup which was made in step 3 above.
reboot

8 Only had 2-3 items that I had to reinstall drivers for. (Like an old
scanner that still uses Win 98 driver)
I now have all my old programs and settings and didn't have to spend
forever reinstalling all my programs.