Hard Drive

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I have two seperate drives C and D,my C drive is going bad,can I
transfer all info onto the D drive,if so how do I do it..As you can
tell I don't know too much about this stuff..
 
Format D: drive with a primary partition,also the drive needs to be on
same IDE chain,once formatted,go to run,type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r
Agree to all in the DOS window,once its thru,so is the drive
transfer,shut-off
computer,set D: as master,set jumper pins on drive(s),start computer.
 
Andrew E. said:
Format D: drive with a primary partition,also the drive needs to be on
same IDE chain,once formatted,go to run,type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r
Agree to all in the DOS window,once its thru,so is the drive
transfer,shut-off
computer,set D: as master,set jumper pins on drive(s),start computer.
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So this computer will boot on the new drive will it?
 
Andrew, I am quite unsure whether this will work.

a) XCOPY will fail to copy files that are in use. This might and most likely
will include important system files. Have you checked that?
b) The boot sector, what about the boot sector and the MBR?
c) Why does it need to be on the same IDE chain, there is absolutely no need
for that.
d) XCOPY is a Win32 console program, at least under WinNT/2000/XP/2003. No
DOS window there, just a Win32 console :)...

I would use a programm like Norton or Symantec Ghost and copy the partition
to the new one. This will work, however Ghost is not free and I am not sure
if there is a free tool that does the same thing as Ghost?
 
BootItNG is supposed to do the same thing as Ghost. Comes with a 30 day
trial (full function). However, I never used it.
 
You can also use sysprep from microsoft to clone an image or create a
bootable knoppix cd and run partimage
 
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