Migrate XP Pro to larger HD

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David P. Lurie

I recently upgraded an XP Pro system with a new MB/RAM combo, but
temporarily kept the old 60 GB HD, a Maxtor ultra/133 as the primary HD.

A new Maxtor 80 GB drive was installed yesterday after making a DAT/floppy
ASR set. I was able to restore from the ASR set, but it only recreated the
original partition, slightly less than 60 GB, leaving 20 GB free.

How can I transfer the system to a full 80 GB primary partition?

Will ASR still format an empty NTFS partition? If not, one option could be
to put the 60 GB drive back in the system as the primary drive, reformat the
80 GB drive with NTFS, then restore to the 80 GB drive.

If ASR reformats the HD under all circumstances, could Norton Ghost be used
to restore to an 80 GB NTFS partition, or would it also recreate the
original, smaller partition?

Thanks,

David P. Lurie
 
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Bradley Worch

You can reinstall the old drive as the master, and the
80 as the slave. Mirror the drives, then break the
mirror and install the 80 as master.
 
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David P. Lurie

How can I mirror with XP Pro - the XP Help indicates that mirroring is only
available with 2000 Server (and presumably the new server as well); I don't
have any systems running 2000 Server on the network.

Thanks,

David P. Lurie
 
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Michael Stevens

David said:
I recently upgraded an XP Pro system with a new MB/RAM combo, but
temporarily kept the old 60 GB HD, a Maxtor ultra/133 as the primary
HD.

A new Maxtor 80 GB drive was installed yesterday after making a
DAT/floppy ASR set. I was able to restore from the ASR set, but it
only recreated the original partition, slightly less than 60 GB,
leaving 20 GB free.

How can I transfer the system to a full 80 GB primary partition?

Will ASR still format an empty NTFS partition? If not, one option
could be to put the 60 GB drive back in the system as the primary
drive, reformat the 80 GB drive with NTFS, then restore to the 80 GB
drive.

If ASR reformats the HD under all circumstances, could Norton Ghost
be used to restore to an 80 GB NTFS partition, or would it also
recreate the original, smaller partition?

Thanks,

David P. Lurie

David,
I would recommend you use imaging software to clone your old drive to the
new one. Swap the hard drives so the new one is the master and old the
slave. You can then use Drive Image, Ghost, BootIT NG, etc to clone the
contents of the old drive to the new. After cloning, disconnect the old
drive before the first boot. After you have successfully booted the new
drive, you can connect the old drive and format for extra storage or leave
it disconnected for backup.
Post back if you would like more help.
BootIT NG from Terabyte has a full featured 30 day trial you can download.
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/
Image for Windows and DOS
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/imagew.html
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/image.zip
Drive Image from Power Quest
http://www.powerquest.com/
Symantec Ghost.
http://www.symantec.com/servsupp.html
Maxblast II Plus
http://tinyurl.com/275m
Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/download/#dlgtools
Casper XP
http://www.fssdev.com/
 
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David P. Lurie

Thanks,

I went ahead and ordered Norton Ghost after determining that it would use
all space available on the new drive.

My new MB (Asus PC800deluxe) has an onboard Promise RAID controller that can
use both Ultra/133 and SATA; the manual claims that existing drives can be
used as the base drive for a mirror pair, but then lists the usual caveats
about having backups "in case of data loss". Image software sounds like the
least risky for time spent upgrading. I'll post back if any problems.

David P. Lurie
 

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