Problem Imaging Boot drive on new HD

[Henry LaMuth]

My current HD (120G Maxtor) is showing signs of dieing. Got a new 120G
Seagate to move everything over to. Followed advice in group but hit a
wall.

Seagate has a utility called DiscWizard that should have done it.
Installed DiscWizard and it goes through these flashing open and then
immediate closing. Can't get it to function properly.

Gave up on discWizard and downloaded BootIT NG. Created boot disk,
booted into the utility under dos...followed directions and tried to
copy old c: into new HD. Won't let me do it...paste is greyed out.
Repartitioned C: to be smaller than the new drive partition and
formated the new drive. Still, copy and paste function won't work.

I am at a loss...two programs refused to function properly. Any ideas
what is happening...different for each. I haven't been this frustrated
since I tried to clone a drive last year and lost it entirely.

Any help would be greatly...and I mean greatly...appreciated.

Does the Xcopy function from dos on C: work, with proper switches set
for system and hidden drives and subdirectories....to copy everything
over to the new drive???

Frustrated in Austin

 

[I'm Dan]

My current HD (120G Maxtor) is showing signs of dieing. Got a
new 120G Seagate to move everything over to. Followed advice
in group but hit a wall.
...(snipped)...
Gave up on discWizard and downloaded BootIT NG. Created
boot disk, booted into the utility under dos...followed directions
and tried to copy old c: into new HD. Won't let me do it...paste
is greyed out. Repartitioned C: to be smaller than the new drive
partition and formated the new drive. Still, copy and paste
function won't work.
...(snipped)...
I am at a loss...two programs refused to function properly. Any
ideas what is happening...different for each. I haven't been this
frustrated since I tried to clone a drive last year and lost it
entirely.

BING is not all that intuitive, but Ron has reposted the directions for you,
so re-read them carefully. In BootIt-NG, if [Paste] is greyed out, that
means you haven't selected unallocated space to paste into. You must select
*unallocated* space to paste into, so if there is an existing partition left
over from the failed DiscWizard attempt, use BING to delete it first. Since
you said you formatted the new drive, I suspect this is your problem.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Gave up on discWizard and downloaded BootIT NG. Created boot disk,
booted into the utility under dos...followed directions and tried to
copy old c: into new HD. Won't let me do it...paste is greyed out.
Repartitioned C: to be smaller than the new drive partition and
formated the new drive. Still, copy and paste function won't work.

With BootIT NG, you do not paste *into* a partition, but *as* a
partition, into free space. First delete the unwanted partitions on the
'target' drive, and when you want to paste click in the Free Space to
select - then click Paste

 

[Yaacov Klapisch]

Try a program called R-Drive Image.
It allows you to do an image of the HD with Windows running.
It worked perfect for me.

 

[Henry LaMuth]

Thanks to each of you for pointing out my mistake. Sorry to post back
so late...was traveling.

Now, the new drive has label D and I need to change it to C, so that
Windows boots correctly. Simply rejumpering the new drive to Master
does not let Windows find it for booting...even though the bios sees
it as the primary drive. The only way I see to get the new drive
labeled as C is to use the MS process for going into the registry and
changing the drive letters.

No one mentioned this so I am not sure I have done the right thing up
to here...though the copy took forever, it looks OK.

Any more hints on getting the new drive...currently the D drive...to
be seen as C and to be bootable??

Thanks for your help.

Henry

 

[Henry LaMuth]

Got it to work. You didn't mention also having to set the boot record
active. I may have missed some postings and thanking folks....had a
couple of exchanges on this forum after the partiion copy.

Thanks to all who suggest and described how to use BootITng...and for
those with a similar problem, don't forget to make the boot record
active, too.

Now for the other hard drive. Now thats another issue. If I have two
HDs and want to copy the partition on the second one...to replace
it...I don't have the unless I replace a CD on the secondary IDE
controller. Have to experiment with this one.

Henry

 

[Alex Nichol]

Got it to work. You didn't mention also having to set the boot record
active. I may have missed some postings and thanking folks....had a
couple of exchanges on this forum after the partiion copy.

Thanks to all who suggest and described how to use BootITng...and for
those with a similar problem, don't forget to make the boot record
active, too.

My standard spiel *does* include making it active. . .A very important
point