Can't copy OS from Western Digital to Seagate....HELP!

[Tom]

Have an old 60gb Western Digital with one partition that I want
to copy to Seagate 120gb exact copy.

Everything I use to copy either locks up or does not copy ntldr,
ntdetect, and pagefile.

XP Pro Sp2

WD is primary master, Seagate is primary slave

Tried, Seagate discwizard, Ghost 2003, no luck.........help!


Kindest Regards from a tech with 15 yrs windows experience
fixing, repairing, etc.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Ghost 2003 should be able to do this, but by using the specially create DOS
Ghost diskettes. You can not complete the transfer from within Windows XP.

 

[Guest]

I have a similar problem but Western digital to Maxtor. I have a western
digital 160 GB primary master drive and It has the western digital "on track"
software with windows XP installed afterwards.
All data was installed without the 137 GB limit fix. I want to install the
fix but it seems I need to install the western digial fix before installing
XP and all the other software.

So I tried to ghost 2002 everything to a maxtor 40gb disk using the norton
boot disk approach. In my case the copy seemed to go fine but whenever I
install the maxtor 40 gb drive as the sole master it says "problem with OS"
and the computer does not boot. -- I know it is not the drive and i am
guessing the bios is okay because I used the 40 gb drive just a few days ago
as the sole master on the same computer in a windows 98 environment and it
worked fine.

My first question is what am I doing wrong. The norton ghost 2002 seems to
work without a hitch -- it took only 12 minutes to run -- but the maxtor, --
I have put the jumper as master --, (model 5T040H4) doesnt run. Any ideas??
The Western digital still works fine -- but without the fix -- when i go back
to it.

My second question, am I correct to assume that the 137gb limit fix (either
maxtor software fix or wester digital software version) must go on before the
operating system and my other program software. Does this mean i have to go
back to the start with windows XP pre service pack 1 and re-obtain all the
service packs and updates( probably several days of work) ???

My third question, if ghost 2002 won't work, is there a way to burn backup
CDs so I dont have to go back to square one installing everthing, getting
updates, registering everthing. Can the CDs work on both drives.

Anything that can save me a lot of tedious work will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Ron Chamberlin]

Hi Tom,

FWIW, I moved from a WD IDE to Seagate SATA last night. I used the
DiscWizard from a fresh d/l from their site, and experienced no problems.
I prepared by dumping the temp files, running disk clean up and defrag.

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP

 

[Alex Nichol]

Have an old 60gb Western Digital with one partition that I want
to copy to Seagate 120gb exact copy.

Everything I use to copy either locks up or does not copy ntldr,
ntdetect, and pagefile.

Do not try doing it from within Windows. What I use is BootIT NG, from
http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30 day full functional trial)

Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to
make a boot floppy.

With the new drive plugged in as slave/secondary, boot the floppy,
Cancel Install, entering maintenance, then click on Partition work.
Highlight your C:,Copy, then on left select the new drive (HD1),
highlight the Free Space in it, and Paste.

If you have partitions other than C, consider whether to resize C up a
bit; then copy the other partitions similarly. But don't make a 120 GB
disk as a single partition

Now click on 'View MBR' and in it highlight the entry for this new C
partition and click the 'Set Active' Click 'Write Standard MBR' and
Apply.

Close out, swap the disks to make the new one the one that boots, and
reboot into XP.

 

[Tom]

What else did you do? Background tasks shutdown?
Antivirus uninstall? USB devices disconnect?

I ended up re-installing windows on the seagate. I am
tempted to try to copy from seagate to WD just to see
if it will work. I had the WD packed full at one time,
deleted files to do the copy but could only free 5gb.

Tom