Replacing Dimension 2300 Boot Drive

[Guest]

Situation:
I have a Dell 2300 with XP SP2 operating system. There is a 40G boot drive
in the chassis (which only has space for one drive). I also have a 80G WD
drive in a USB enclosure. I recently purchased a Seagate 200G drive.
Goal:
I’d like to end up with the 80G as the boot drive in the chassis and the
200G in the USB enclosure. Problem: I want to copy/clone the 40G to the 80G
so I can place the 80G in the chassis and have it boot right up. Articles
that I have read makes it seem to be a difficult task to assure that the 80G
will boot right up when I install it. I am primarily concerned that all of
the software will be on the 80G to make it a bootable drive.
I’d appreciate suggestions or preferably specific steps since I haven’t done
this before.
Thank you,

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Check the replies to your first post.

 

[Thomas Wendell]

(Dell 2300?? What's that? PowerEdge server? Full model, please)

Do you have enogh space somewhere to store the contents of the 80GB drive?
(How much data is there on it?)
Do you want the whole as 80GB as one drive/partition?
And did that 200GB drive come with drive-cloning software?


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[Guest]

Sorry, thought that I put this one on the Dell User Board

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

If so then you should cross-post rather than multipost.
Multiposting wastes everybody's time because it leads
to duplication of effort: People in different groups cannot
see replies in the other groups.

 

[Guest]

I have no idea what cross-post means. Please point to me to somewhere where
I can learn about this type of thing. This is my first posting to a User
Group and I apologize to all for wasting their time.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Multipost: Posting the same item in several newsgroups independently.
Greatly frowned upon because it leads to duplication of effort.

Crosspost: Placing the names of the various newsgroups into the
address field of the post, separated by semicolons. This post and all
responses to it are now visible in all nominated newsgroups. OK when
used in moderation.