Cloning Hard drive

[Marcus]

Hello

At present my setup is a dual boot, my XP pro install in on my main hard
drive (active drive) which is the fastest drive in my system, my Vista
install is on my second hard drive which is the slower of the two.

Originally I planned to dual boot between Xp pro and Vista as I thought some
of my hard/software would be incompatible but to be honest after 2 weeks
updating drivers and software and tweaking I'm at the stage where I'm happy
to use Vista on it's own.

I have 2 questions:-

1. Using Trueimage could I image my Win XP partition and my Win Vista
partition and swap them over so my Vista partition is on the faster drive,
would this cause problems as the hard drives are a different make or would
vista just detect the changes. Would this cause problems with the dual boot.

2. Also using Trueimage could I image my Vista partition , copy it to the Xp
partition but not put the Xp partition on, would I need a boot manager
program because my current Xp install is on the active hard drive so I
presume the PC looks for the XP install to give me my boot options.

TIA

Marcus

 

[ray]

Hello

At present my setup is a dual boot, my XP pro install in on my main hard
drive (active drive) which is the fastest drive in my system, my Vista
install is on my second hard drive which is the slower of the two.

Originally I planned to dual boot between Xp pro and Vista as I thought some
of my hard/software would be incompatible but to be honest after 2 weeks
updating drivers and software and tweaking I'm at the stage where I'm happy
to use Vista on it's own.

I have 2 questions:-

1. Using Trueimage could I image my Win XP partition and my Win Vista
partition and swap them over so my Vista partition is on the faster drive,
would this cause problems as the hard drives are a different make or would
vista just detect the changes. Would this cause problems with the dual boot.

2. Also using Trueimage could I image my Vista partition , copy it to the Xp
partition but not put the Xp partition on, would I need a boot manager
program because my current Xp install is on the active hard drive so I
presume the PC looks for the XP install to give me my boot options.

TIA

Marcus

Absolutely. It should go with no hitch.

 

[Marcus]

I think an eaiser way would be to remove XP first.

How to I change the boot files so the PC looks to my Vista partition to boot
the computer rather than going to the XP partition and giving the option to
boot to Vista or XP.

If I can get that sorted then I could just clone my Vista partition to the
faster hard drive.

 

[Marcus]

"> At present my setup is a dual boot, my XP pro install in on my main hard

drive (active drive) which is the fastest drive in my system, my Vista
install is on my second hard drive which is the slower of the two.

Originally I planned to dual boot between Xp pro and Vista as I thought
some of my hard/software would be incompatible but to be honest after 2
weeks updating drivers and software and tweaking I'm at the stage where
I'm happy to use Vista on it's own.

I have 2 questions:-

1. Using Trueimage could I image my Win XP partition and my Win Vista
partition and swap them over so my Vista partition is on the faster drive,
would this cause problems as the hard drives are a different make or would
vista just detect the changes. Would this cause problems with the dual
boot.

2. Also using Trueimage could I image my Vista partition , copy it to the
Xp partition but not put the Xp partition on, would I need a boot manager
program because my current Xp install is on the active hard drive so I
presume the PC looks for the XP install to give me my boot options.

Think I've sussed it. Move my Vista partition from slower drive to faster
drive replacing my Win XP partition marking drive as active. Boot the
computer using Vista DVD, select repair install then use the fix boot
option, this fixes the boot in to Vista only and not XP.

Had a practice last night using an old 40GB hard drive.