Need help cloning system HD to larger size

[Cmdr Data]

My laptop has a 30 GB system HD (FAT32, XP Home). I bought a 40GB HD
and used MaxBlast3 to clone the drive ( the 40GB installed in a pocket
drive holder, attached to the USB port). After setting the new drive
(NTFS), and many hours later, all 41,000+ files were copied with no
errors. But, after installing this new drive in the laptop as the one
and only boot drive, it will not even boot. Do I need a different tool
like Ghost ( I have Norton Systemworsk 2003 that has never been
installed anywhere) to do this task? Thanks.

 

[Art]

My laptop has a 30 GB system HD (FAT32, XP Home). I bought a 40GB HD
and used MaxBlast3 to clone the drive ( the 40GB installed in a pocket
drive holder, attached to the USB port). After setting the new drive
(NTFS), and many hours later, all 41,000+ files were copied with no
errors. But, after installing this new drive in the laptop as the one
and only boot drive, it will not even boot. Do I need a different tool
like Ghost ( I have Norton Systemworsk 2003 that has never been
installed anywhere) to do this task? Thanks.

XXCLONE works fine for me in creating a bootable drive clone on Win 2K
Pro and it should work ok on XP:

http://www.xxclone.com/

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg

 

[Jim]

XXCLONE works fine for me in creating a bootable drive clone on Win 2K
Pro and it should work ok on XP:

Even after you use XXCOPY or GHOST to clone the HD etc. it seems to me
that XP will check the hardware at boot and think that it is running on
a "new" machine, because of that larger HD. Bill will think that you
are trying to cheat him and ask for a new activation code$$$

 

[Cmdr Data]

Since I haven't gotten that far (getting the cloned XP to work), I
don't know if this will be my next problem. I would think that the WPA
should be granted since I bought this XP Home as an upgrade to the
previous OS (Win98SE), right?

 

[vbMark]

Since I haven't gotten that far (getting the cloned XP to work), I
don't know if this will be my next problem. I would think that the WPA
should be granted since I bought this XP Home as an upgrade to the
previous OS (Win98SE), right?

As long as you have a legal license it's not a problem. If it asks for
your license just enter it. If there is a problem, just call the phone
number that will be displayed.

I've called this number several times because of upgrading my hardware and
it's a very easy process.

 

[Ivan Tisljar]

My laptop has a 30 GB system HD (FAT32, XP Home). I bought a 40GB HD
and used MaxBlast3 to clone the drive ( the 40GB installed in a pocket
drive holder, attached to the USB port). After setting the new drive
(NTFS), and many hours later, all 41,000+ files were copied with no
errors. But, after installing this new drive in the laptop as the one
and only boot drive, it will not even boot. Do I need a different tool
like Ghost ( I have Norton Systemworsk 2003 that has never been
installed anywhere) to do this task? Thanks.

Try booting fdisk and setting the drive as bootable - it seems to me
that it's not marked as bootable.

For that, you have to have some win98 boot diskette. You can burn it
to CD and boot from CD, if you don't have floppy drive.

Ivan.

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