moving an OS

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hi all, thanks for the help in advance.
here is my general setup. i have a 100 gig as master on my primary. i have
a 160 gig as a slave on my primary. i would like to swap them; make the 160
the master and the 100 the slave. can i copy the partition i have my OS
installed in on the 100 to a partition on the 160 then just swap them and
have it work?

thanks,
Chris
 
You'll need a third-party imaging program.

Norton Ghost 9.0
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/features.html

Animated Shockwave Ghost tutorial with sound
http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/tutorial/ghost_2002/2001032917165825_s.html

How to perform a disk-to-disk clone
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/pfdocs/2001032917165825

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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| hi all, thanks for the help in advance.
| here is my general setup. i have a 100 gig as master on my primary. i have
| a 160 gig as a slave on my primary. i would like to swap them; make the 160
| the master and the 100 the slave. can i copy the partition i have my OS
| installed in on the 100 to a partition on the 160 then just swap them and
| have it work?
|
| thanks,
| Chris
 
Chris said:
hi all, thanks for the help in advance.
here is my general setup. i have a 100 gig as master on my
primary. i have a 160 gig as a slave on my primary. i would
like to swap them; make the 160 the master and the 100 the
slave. can i copy the partition i have my OS installed in on the
100 to a partition on the 160 then just swap them and have it
work?


Yes, if there is enough unallocated space on the 160GB
HD to fit the partition that is now on the 100GB HD. You
would then just have to copy a clone of the 100GB HD's
OS partition to the unallocated space on the 160GB HD,
mark the new partition "active", swap the drives if they are
jumpered Cable Select or reverse their jumpering or go
into the BIOS and reverse their positions in the HD boot
order. Then WITH THE 100GB HD DISCONNECTED,
boot up the new OS for its 1st time. Then, when you're
convinced it's OK, shut down the PC, reconnect the 100GB
HD. With the OS on the 160GB HD, you could then delete
the old OS's partition on the 100GB and transfer the folders
from the 160GB HD to the 100GB HD with a partition copy
or just with drag 'n drop.

But why do you want to do that?

*TimDaniels*
 
by "unallocated" you mean space that hasn't been formated or just space that
doesn't have anything on it?
 
Carey said:

What about

1 Windows XP backup w/ System State to current 100G system disk
2 Restore the XP backup onto the 160G slave disk
3 Swap disks (100G master -> slave, 160GB slave -> master)
4 Boot Recovery console
5 Bootcfg /rebuild on new 160GB master
 
By "unallocated" I mean disk space that is not part of a partition,
regardless of whether the partition is formatted or not. If you are
doing a cloning, the formatting is carried along with the copied
sectors, so a formatted partition isn't needed. Most cloning
utilities that I've used don't require a pre-formatted partition
for that reason. Note that a "clone" is not an "image" or "image
file". An "image" is a file or files that may be on a HD or some
other type of mass storage, and a "restoration" step must be
performed to return it to the state of an installed OS. A "clone"
is contained on a HD and it can be immediately booted because
it is a byte-for-byte copy of the original installed OS.

*TimDaniels*
 
Chris said:
well, to tell the truth....just because. i ain't never tried it before.

You don't say exactly what you're trying to do, and thus, no one
can assist you properly. Are you trying to swap the partitions on
the two HDs, or are you trying to put the OS on the Slave HD and
boot from the Slave (which is just as valid as booting from a
HD jumpered as Master), or do you want to just switch their
positions on the cable, or what? Are you using explicit Master/
Slave jumpering, or are you using Cable Select? When you
say "on my primary", do you refer to the HD on channel 0 of the
IDE controller, keeping in mind that the HDs could just as easily
be both Master or both Slave if they're on different channels?
And is there enough space on the 160GB HD to fit what is
already there plus a partition of the size that's on the 100GB HD?
IOW, what is it that you ain't never tried?

Lastly, it's polite to top post if you're replying to a thread that has
already started as a top post, and to bottom post if a thread has
already started as a bottom post.

*TimDaniels*
 
To do this non destructively you need third party software. BootIt NG will
work well and is a lower priced alternative to buying both repartitioning
software and separate cloning software as BootIt NG contains both. Just
google for it by name.

The process is to boot off the BootIt NG floppy but cancel the option to
install it. By canceling the install you will run the partitioning and
imaging components off the floppy. You need to have the 160 attached as
Master and the 100 attached as slave first though.

Use BootIt NG's Partition Work application to reduce the size of the 160
partition to a size that can accommodate the OS on the 100GB. Then create a
partition in this newly allocated space. Make certain the new space is at
the front of the drive rather than at the end. Once that is done you can
copy the partition which houses the OS on the 100 over to the newly
allocated and partitioned space on the front end of the 160. Then you can
copy the data from the resized (old) partition on the 160 over to the 100 if
you so desire or simply reformat the 100.
 
Remember that the existing partition on the 160GB HD will to be
shifted upward after the shrinking to make way for the new partition
under it.

*TimDaniels*

Harry Ohrn said:
To do this non destructively you need third party software. BootIt NG will
work well and is a lower priced alternative to buying both repartitioning
software and separate cloning software as BootIt NG contains both. Just
google for it by name.

The process is to boot off the BootIt NG floppy but cancel the option to
install it. By canceling the install you will run the partitioning and
imaging components off the floppy. You need to have the 160 attached as
Master and the 100 attached as slave first though.

Use BootIt NG's Partition Work application to reduce the size of the 160
partition to a size that can accommodate the OS on the 100GB. Then create a
partition in this newly allocated space. Make certain the new space is at
the front of the drive rather than at the end. Once that is done you can
copy the partition which houses the OS on the 100 over to the newly
allocated and partitioned space on the front end of the 160. Then you can
copy the data from the resized (old) partition on the 160 over to the 100 if
you so desire or simply reformat the 100.

--

Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User]


Chris said:
hi all, thanks for the help in advance.
here is my general setup. i have a 100 gig as master on my primary. i
have
a 160 gig as a slave on my primary. i would like to swap them; make the
160
the master and the 100 the slave. can i copy the partition i have my OS
installed in on the 100 to a partition on the 160 then just swap them and
have it work?

thanks,
Chris
 

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