How do you replace a boot drive with bigger drive?

[Guest]

I have a small boot drive and have bought a new bigger drive I want to move the data to. I installed the new drive on the second IDE chain as a master and then I used PowerQuest Drive image to copy the boot drive to the new HD.

I then powered down, removed the original boot drive and installed the copy (new drive) in it's place and tried to boot. XP complained that it couldn't boot because it couldn't find the boot volume anymore.

Can anyone tell me how to do this right? Thanks

- Thom Walker

 

[Guest]

Almost there!

What you need to do is make sure that you do not boot into Windows XP: formatting in XP and making the drive active creates unique XP files in the boot sector. This will cause problems.

Boot from a Floppy Drive or CD that has disk management, such as FDISK or FORMAT commands.

First Phase:
Delete the Partition on the new Drive.
Create a new Partition.
Format the Drive.

Run Drive Image to clone the old drive to the new drive.

Power off the PC.

Second Phase:
Disconnect the old drive and set the new drive up in its place, remeber to jumper it as Master if it was set up as slave to do the first phase.

Reboot the PC and go into BIOS and run HDD detection to reconfigure BIOS with new HDD setup.

Reboot the PC to XP.

It should all be happy now.

If this fails, then power off and run a repair install:


Boot off the XP Install CD
When you see the "Welcome To Setup" screen, you will see the options below:

This portion of the Setup program prepares Microsoft
Windows XP to run on your computer:

To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.
To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R.
To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3.

Press Enter to start the Windows Setup.

Accept the License Agreement and Windows will search for existing Windows installations.

Select the XP installation you want to repair from the list and press R to start the repair.

 

[johnf]

Rubbish!

Thom, did use use DI 2002 or DI 7.0?
Irrespective of what Powerquest/Symantec recommends, V7.0 is not always
successful trying to image with the XP OS still active, although it DOES
always say it copied OK, so make sure you do it with 2002, which will image
during reboot in "DOS" mode.

Start again doing the following -

CORRECT cable setup - old drive at the end of the IDE1 cable, new drive on
the intermediate connector; both drives jumpered to CS (Cable Select), NOT
Master & Slave. put your CD-ROM drive(s) on the IDE2 cable.

Re-format the new drive to NTFS with Partition Magic (I assume you have
that, seeing you already have DI) & re-image with DI2002, (beg, borrow or
steal it if you don't have it).

Now remove the old drive & put the new one on the end connector of IDE1.
Boot up, go into BIOS & make sure the new drive is automatically detected
(some BIOS setups require you to manually detect it in 'Advanced')
Go into the main BIOS screen and change the new drive to 'Auto', save
changes & it will then boot fine.

If you want to use you old drive for data or whatever later, put it on the
intermediate connector of IDE1 (again - set to CS) and format it with PM.

Golden rules -

Always have your Pri OS at the end of cable 1 & set to CS, all CD-ROM drives
on cable 2.
DO NOT fiddle with a boot floppy or FDISK, that old method is not intended
for XP, all those functions are already on the XP CD. If you follow the
above instructions correctly that won't be necessary, nor will a
repair/reinstall help.

 

[johnf]

Sorry, possibly slightly confusing at one spot.

Where I said "Go into the main BIOS screen and change the new drive to
'Auto'" -
Read that as "Go into the main BIOS screen and change 'Primary IDE Drive' to
Auto"